Lophiidae, Rafinesque, 1810

Chen, Hsuan-Pu, Lee, Mao-Ying & Chen, Wei-Jen, 2024, Integrative taxonomy reveals unanticipated hidden diversity in the monotypic goosefish genus Lophiomus (Teleostei, Lophiidae), with description of three new species and resurrection of Chirolophius laticeps Ogilby, 1910, European Journal of Taxonomy 943, pp. 239-287 : 278

Key to the genera of Lophiidae

We revised couplet 3 of the key to the genera of Lophiidae provided by Caruso (1985):

3. Floor of mouth without any dark marking; outer surface of maxilla smooth; quadrate with two spines, both upper and lower spine present; interopercular spine with single spine; dorsal-fin rays 9–12; anal-fin rays 8–10; pectoral-fin rays 19–28; vertebrae 26–31 ( Fig. 7B ) ...... Lophius Linneaus, 1758

– Floor of mouth with conspicuous dark marking (except Lm. immaculatus ), ranges from reticulate dark pattern, anastomosing dark pattern, to irregular or circular pale pattern on dark background; outer surface of maxilla bearing low conical knobs; quadrate with single lower spine; interopercular spine with two spines; dorsal-fin rays 8; anal-fin rays 6; pectoral-fin rays 21–25; vertebrae 18–19 ( Figs 7C , 15 ) .................................................................................................... Lophiomus Gill, 1883

Figures

Fig. 7. Cranial comparative osteology of the three lophiid genera. A. Lophiodes mutilus (Alcock, 1894). B. Lophius litulon (Jordan, 1902). C. Lophiomus setigerus (Vahl, 1797). Scale bars = 10 mm.

Fig. 15. X-ray radiographs in dorsal view and zoom-in images of left pectoral-fin of Lophiomus spp. collected in this study for visualizing interspecific variations in pectoral-fin ray counts. A. Lm. setigerus (Vahl, 1797), neotype (NTUM10408, sample ID: WJC0905). B. Lm. laticeps (Ogilby, 1910) stat. rev. (NTUM13463, sample ID: NC1375). C. Lm. immaculioralis sp. nov., holotype (NTUM16313, sample ID: WJC7777). D. Lm. nigriventris sp. nov., holotype (NTUM15096, sample ID: WJC5808). E. Lm. carusoi sp. nov., holotype (MNHN 2024-0099, sample ID: NC2059).