Chelmonops

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Chelmonops truncatus.jpg | image_caption = Truncate coralfish (''C. truncatus'') | taxon = Chelmonops | authority = Bleeker, 1876 | type_species = ''Chaetodon truncatus'' | type_species_authority = Kner, 1859<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Chaetodontidae | access-date = 22 November 2020}}</ref> }}

'''''Chelmonops''''' is a small genus of ray-finned fish, butterflyfishes from the family Chaetodontidae. Unlike the mainly tropical distribution of most marine butterflyfishes, ''Chelmonops'' is restricted to temperate and subtropical coastal waters along the southern half of Australia.

The name of the genus is a compound of the genus name ''Chelmon'' coined by Georges Cuvier for the genus that ''C. truncatus'' was originally placed in, and the word ''ops'' which means “resembles”.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/acanthuriformes1/ | title =Order ACANTHURIFORMES (part 1): Families LOBOTIDAE, POMACANTHIDAE, DREPANEIDAE and CHAETODONTIDAE | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | accessdate = 22 November 2020 | date = 21 July 2020 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>

==Species== There are currently two recognized species in this genus:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Chelmonops| month = February | year = 2013}}</ref> * ''Chelmonops curiosus'' <small>Kuiter, 1986</small> (Western talma) * ''Chelmonops truncatus'' <small>(Kner, 1859)</small> (Eastern talma)

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Category:Chelmonops Category:Marine fish genera Category:Marine fish of Australia Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker