Sladenia (fish)

Sladenia
	S. shaefersi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Lophiiformes
Family:	Lophiidae
Genus:	Sladenia; Regan, 1908
Type species
	Sladenia gardineri; Regan, 1908

Sladenia is a genus of deep sea goosefishes[1] found in the Caribbean Sea and western Pacific Ocean.

The genus was named for Percy Sladen (1849–1900), a British echinoderm biologist. The holotype of S. gardineri was collected during an expedition funded by his memorial trust.[2]

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1][3]

Sladenia gardineri Regan, 1908
Sladenia remiger H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912 (Celebes monkfish)
Sladenia shaefersi J. H. Caruso & Bullis, 1976[4]
Sladenia zhui Y. Ni, H. L. Wu & S. Li, 2012 [5]

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Sladenia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 1): Families LOPHIIDAE, ANTENNARIIDAE, TETRABRACHIIDAE, LOPHICHTHYIDAE, BRACHIONICHTHYIDAE, CHAUNACIDAE and OGCOCEPHALIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Sladenia in FishBase. August 2022 version.
Caruso, John H.; Bullis, Harvey R. (1976). "A review of the lophiid angler fish genus Sladenia, with a description of a new species from the Caribbean Sea". Bulletin of Marine Science. 26 (1): 59–64.
Ni, Yong; Wu, Han-Lin; Li, Sheng (2012). "A new species of the genus Sladenia (Pisces, Lophiidae) from the East China Sea and the South China Sea". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 37 (1): 211–216.

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[CoF-1] Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Sladenia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 October 2022.

[ETYFish-2] Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order LOPHIIFORMES (part 1): Families LOPHIIDAE, ANTENNARIIDAE, TETRABRACHIIDAE, LOPHICHTHYIDAE, BRACHIONICHTHYIDAE, CHAUNACIDAE and OGCOCEPHALIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 February 2022.

[3] Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Sladenia in FishBase. August 2022 version.

[4] Caruso, John H.; Bullis, Harvey R. (1976). "A review of the lophiid angler fish genus Sladenia, with a description of a new species from the Caribbean Sea". Bulletin of Marine Science. 26 (1): 59–64.

[5] Ni, Yong; Wu, Han-Lin; Li, Sheng (2012). "A new species of the genus Sladenia (Pisces, Lophiidae) from the East China Sea and the South China Sea". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 37 (1): 211–216.