Cookeolus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes from the family Priacanthidae, the bigeyes. It contains one extant species and one extinct species.

Cookeolus
Cookeolus japonicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Priacanthidae
Genus: Cookeolus
Fowler, 1928[1]
Type species
Cookeolus japonicus
(Cuvier, 1829)[1]

Species

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The following species are classified within the genus Cookeolus:

† means extinct.

References

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  1. ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cookeolus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cookeolus japonicus". FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. ^ Kon, Takeshi; Yoshino, Tetsuo (1997). "Cookeolus spinolacrymatus sp. nov., a Late Pliocene priacanthid fish from Okinawa, Japan". Ichthyological Research. 44 (4): 347–356. doi:10.1007/BF02671986. S2CID 35319530.