A Melanocetus a csontos halak (Osteichthyes) főosztályának sugarasúszójú halak (Actinopterygii) osztályába, ezen belül a horgászhalalakúak (Lophiiformes) rendjébe és a Melanocetidae családjába tartozó nem.
Rendszertani besorolásuk A Melanocetus az egyetlen neme a Melanocetidae családnak.
Rendszerezés A nembe az alábbi 6 faj tartozik:
Melanocetus eustalus Pietsch & Van Duzer, 1980 púpos horgászhal (Melanocetus johnsonii) Günther, 1864 - típusfaj Melanocetus murrayi Günther, 1887 Melanocetus niger Regan, 1925 Melanocetus polyactis Regan, 1925 Melanocetus rossi Balushkin & Fedorov, 1981
Források Melanocetus FishBase 1864: On a new genus of pediculate fish from the Sea of Madeira. Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, 1864 (pt 2): 301–303, Pl. 25. 1865: On a new genus of pediculate fish from the Sea of Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 3) 15(87): 332–334. 1983: The ceratioid anglerfishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 35: 77–99. 2001: Review of the deep-sea anglerfishes (Lophiiformes: Ceratioidei) of southern Africa. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 70: 1–32. Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 2003. Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003. Bertelsen, E., 1990. Melanocetidae. p. 492-493. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. Pequeño, G., 1989. Peces de Chile. Lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Rev. Biol. Mar., Valparaiso 24(2):1-132. Pietsch, T.W., 2009. Oceanic anglerfishes. Extraordinary diversity in the deep sea. Oceanic Anglerfishes, i-xii; 1-557pp. Pietsch, T.W., 1990. Melanocetidae. p. 214. In O. Gon and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Fishes of the Southern Ocean. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. Balushkin, A.V. & V.V. Fedorov 1981: On finding the deepwater anglerfishes (Melanocetus rossi sp. n. and Oneirodes notius) in the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Biologiya Morya (Vladivostok), 2(2): 79–82. [In Russian, English abstract.]
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