Notacanthus

Notacanthus
	Snubnosed spiny eel, Notacanthus chemnitzii.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Notacanthiformes
Family:	Notacanthidae
Genus:	Notacanthus; Bloch, 1788
Type species
	Notacanthus chemnitzii; Bloch 1788
Synonyms
	Campylodon Fabricius 1793; Acanthonotus Bloch & Schneider 1801; Helorus Goode 1880 (Preocc.); Gigliolia Goode & Bean 1895 (Preocc.); Tiluropsis Roule 1911;

Notacanthus is a genus of spiny eels in the family Notacanthidae.

Species

It currently contains these recognized species:^[3]

Notacanthus abbotti Fowler, 1934 (Mindanao spiny eel)
Notacanthus arrontei Bañón, Barros-García, Baldó, Cojan & Carlos, 2024
Notacanthus bonaparte A. Risso, 1840 (Shortfin spiny eel)
Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch, 1788 (Snub-nosed spiny eel)
Notacanthus indicus Lloyd, 1909 (Arabian spiny eel)
Notacanthus laccadiviensis Konhamkakkada, Kinattumkara, Raghavan & Sivanpillai, 2023
Notacanthus sexspinis J. Richardson, 1846 (Spiny-back eel)
Notacanthus spinosus Garman, 1899 (Panama spiny-back eel)

↑ Van Der Laan, Richard; Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ronald (11 November 2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (1): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
↑ "Part 7- Vertebrates". Collection of genus-group names in a systematic arrangement. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Notacanthus". FishBase. September 2024 version.