The chaunacid anglerfish genus Chaunax, also known as coffinfishes or sea toads, comprises 17 species. They are
small benthic fishes (usually <40 cm total length) inhabiting continental shelves and slopes, mainly in tropical and
warm temperate parts of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Most of the species occur in the Indo-west Pacific
region, except for C. pictus Lowe 1846, C. stigmaeus Fowler 1946 and C. suttkusi Caruso 1989 from the Atlantic
Ocean, and C. latipunctatus Le Danois 1984 from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Caruso (1989) divided the species into
two primary subgroups (i.e. C. fimbriatus-species group and C. pictus-species group), and Ho & Shao (2010) added
a third subgroup, the C. abei-species group, formerly included in the C. fimbriatus-species group.
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