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The great northern tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps), or golden tile, is a species of tilefish first discovered in 1879, when a cod trawler caught some by chance while working off of the coast of Massachusetts. Due to its size and potential salability, the United States Bureau of Fisheries launched a project to map potential fishing sites. The report concluded that the fish were most abundant between 90 and 150 fathoms, at a specific water temperature. WHAT TEMPERATURE?

Taxonomy and naming
The great northern tilefish is the only species within the genus Lopholatilus, which itself is in the family Malacanthidae, commonly known as tilefish. The Malacanthidae are part of the Percoidea, a suborder of the order Perciformes.

The species was named Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean in 1896 in their seminal work Oceanic Ichthyology, A Treatise on the Deep-Sea and Pelagic Fishes of the World, from a sample collected 80 miles south east of Nomans Land, Massachusetts.

Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps gained its moniker "great northern tilefish" from its prodigious size and its discovery at relatively high latitudes for a member of Malacanthidae. When used in cooking, the species is generally referred to as the "golden tile", for the large yellow spots across its blue-green back and lighter-yellow or pink sides.