Malacanthidae

Tile fish

Lopholatilus villarii

Fish Reaching One Hundred Seven Centimeters in the Brazilian Coast

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• South America
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

Lopholatilus villarii, the tilefish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a tilefish belonging to the family Malacanthidae. It is native to the western South Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. This species was first formally described in 1915 by the Brazilian naturalist Alpilio de Miranda Ribeiro (1874-1939) with the type locality given as Praca do Mercado, Brazil.