Macrorhamphosodes, the trumpetsnouts, is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Triacanthodidae, the spikefishes.

[1] M. platycheilus was also described by Fowler in 1934 and its type locality given as Sombrero Island off Luzonin the Philippines from Albatross station 5118 from a depth of 340 fathoms (2,040 ft; 620 m).

[2] In 1933 the Japanese ichthyologist Toshiji Kamohara has described Halimochirus uradoi from Kochi Prefecture in Japan, the genus name was a misspelling of Halimochirurgus.

[3] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family Triacanthodidae in the suborder Triacanthoidei in the order Tetraodontiformes.

The specific name of M. uradoi means of Urado in the Kochi Prefecture of Japan, where Kamohara found the holotype at a fish market.