{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Onuxodon | authority = J. L. B. Smith, 1955 | type_species = ''Carapus parvibrachium'' | type_species_authority = Fowler, 1927<ref name = CoF>{{Cof record|genid=7309|title=Onuxodon|access-date=8 July 2018}}</ref> }}
'''''Onuxodon''''' is an Indo-Pacific genus of pearlfishes from the family Carapidae. The generic name is derived from the Greek ''onyx'' meaning "claw" and ''odon'' meaning "tooth", referring to the sharp fang like teeth of ''Onuxodon parvibrachium''.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/ | title = Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE | accessdate = 8 July 2018 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | date = 21 March 2018 | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | archive-date = 8 July 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180708104037/http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> Species in this genus are distributed from South Africa to Hawaii. They live commensally with molluscs.<ref name = FAO>{{cite book | author1 = Jørgen G. Nielsen | author2 = Daniel M. Cohen | author3 = Douglas F. Markle | author4 = C. Richard Robins | name-list-style = amp | year = 1999 | title = OPHIDIIFORM FISHES OF THE WORLD (Order Ophidiiformes) An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform fishes known to date | series = FAO Species Catalogues | volume = 17 | publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | place = Rome | isbn = 92-5-104375-2}}</ref> The three currently recognized species are:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Onuxodon| month = June | year = 2012}}</ref> * ''Onuxodon fowleri'' <small>(J. L. B. Smith, 1955)</small> (Fowler's pearlfish) * ''Onuxodon margaritiferae'' <small>(Rendahl, 1921)</small> (bivalve pearlfish) * ''Onuxodon parvibrachium'' <small>(Fowler, 1927)</small> (oyster pearlfish)
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