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Pale toadfish

Pale toadfish
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Psychrolutidae
Genus: Ambophthalmos
Species:
A. angustus
Binomial name
Ambophthalmos angustus
(J. S. Nelson, 1977)
Synonyms[1]
  • Neophrynichthys angustus J. S. Nelson, 1977

The pale toadfish (Ambophthalmos angustus, previously classified as Neophrynichthys angustus[2]) is a fathead sculpin of the family Psychrolutidae.

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Ambophthalmos angustus". FishBase. February 2023 version.
  2. ^ Keith L. Jackson and Joseph S. Nelson, Ambophthalmos, a new genus for "Neophrynichthys" angustus and "Neophrynichthys" magnicirrus, and the systematic interrelationships of the fathead sculpins (Cottoidei, Psychrolutidae), Can. J. Zool. 76(7): 1344–1357 (1998), doi:10.1139/cjz-76-7-1344.

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