''Rudarius'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
filefish
The filefish (Monacanthidae) are a diverse family of tropical to subtropical tetraodontiform marine fish, which are also known as foolfish, leatherjackets, or shingles. They live in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. Filefish are closely ...
es native to the western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...
.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
[Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. ''Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.'']
* ''
Rudarius ercodes''
D. S. Jordan & Fowler, 1902 (white-spotted pygmy filefish)
* ''
Rudarius excelsus''
Hutchins, 1977 (diamond leatherjacket)
* ''
Rudarius minutus''
J. C. Tyler, 1970 (minute leatherjacket)
References
Monacanthidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler
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