Cookeolus Explained

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

Species

The following species are classified within the genus Cookeolus:

• Cookeolus japonicus (Cuvier, 1829) – Longfinned bullseye
• †Cookeolus spinolacrymatus Kon & Yoshino, 1997 ^[1]

† means extinct.

Notes and References

1. Kon. Takeshi. Yoshino. Tetsuo. Cookeolus spinolacrymatus sp. nov., a Late Pliocene priacanthid fish from Okinawa, Japan . Ichthyological Research . 1997 . 44 . 4 . 347–356 . 10.1007/BF02671986. 35319530.