''Cancelloxus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of clinids found in the southeastern

Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

ocean.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''

Cancelloxus burrelli ''Cancelloxus burrelli'', the Slender platanna-klipfish, is a species of clinid found in subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean along the South African coast from the Orange River to Algoa Bay in South Africa. It can be found from the interti ...

J. L. B. Smith James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long ex ...

, 1961 (Slender platanna-klipfish) * ''

Cancelloxus elongatus ''Cancelloxus elongatus'', the whiteblotched klipfish, is a species of clinid found in subtropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean along the South African coast. It prefers sandy habitats with nearby rocks at depths of from . It can reach a maximum ...

'' Heemstra & J. E. Wright, 1986 (Whiteblotched klipfish) * ''

Cancelloxus longior ''Cancelloxus longior'' is a species of clinid found in subtropical waters of the South African coast. It can be found in areas with a sand substrate from the intertidal zone to a depth of about . Males of this species can reach a maximum leng ...

'' Prochazka & Griffiths, 1991

References

Clinidae {{Clinidae-stub