Chlorophthalmus

Chlorophthalmus
Chlorophthalmus agassizi
Chlorophthalmus chalybeius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Aulopiformes
Family:	Chlorophthalmidae
Genus:	Chlorophthalmus Bonaparte, 1840
Type species
Chlorophthalmus agassizi Bonaparte, 1840
Synonyms
Hyphalonedrus Goode, 1881 Pelopsia Facciolà, 1883

Chlorophthalmus is a genus of greeneyes

The species is distinguished by a silvery gray body with black spots and dark crossbar traces, a lower jaw that ends in a peculiar horizontal plate with spine-like processes, and other unique characteristics including body part sizes and proportions. Chlorophthalmus bicornis is a junior synonym of C. corniger. At depths of 200 to 500 meters, C. corniger is mostly found in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, extending from southern Java, Indonesia, to Somalia.