Pachycara
| Pachycara | |
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| Pachycara sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Zoarcidae |
| Subfamily: | Lycodinae |
| Genus: | Pachycara Zugmayer, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Pachycara obesa Zugmayer, 1911[1]
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Pachycara is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The fishes in this genus are found in the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Pacific Ocean.
Species
There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Pachycara alepidotum M. E. Anderson & Mincarone, 2006
- Pachycara angeloi Thiel, Kneblsberger, Kihara & Gerdes, 2021[3]
- Pachycara andersoni Møller, 2003 (Anderson's eelpout)
- Pachycara arabica Møller, 2003 (Arabian eelpout)
- Pachycara brachycephalum (Pappenheim, 1912)
- Pachycara bulbiceps (Garman, 1899) (Snub-nose eelpout)
- Pachycara caribbaeum M. E. Anderson, R. N. Somerville & Copley, 2016[4]
- Pachycara cousinsi Møller & N. J. King 2007 (Brown eelpout)
- Pachycara crassiceps (Roule, 1916)
- Pachycara crossacanthum M. E. Anderson, 1989
- Pachycara dolichaulus M. E. Anderson, 2006
- Pachycara garricki M. E. Anderson, 1990
- Pachycara goni M. E. Anderson, 1991
- Pachycara gymninium M. E. Anderson & Peden, 1988 (Naked-nape eelpout)
- Pachycara karenae M. E. Anderson, 2012
- Pachycara lepinium M. E. Anderson & Peden, 1988 (Scaly-nape eelpout)
- Pachycara matallanasi Corbella & Møller, 2014[5]
- Pachycara mesoporum M. E. Anderson, 1989
- Pachycara microcephalum (A. S. Jensen, 1902)
- Pachycara moelleri Shinohara, 2012[6]
- Pachycara nazca M. E. Anderson & Bluhm, 1997
- Pachycara pammelas M. E. Anderson, 1989
- Pachycara priedei Møller & N. J. King, 2007
- Pachycara rimae M. E. Anderson, 1989
- Pachycara saldanhai Biscoito & A. J. T. Almeida, 2004
- Pachycara shcherbachevi M. E. Anderson, 1989
- Pachycara sulaki M. E. Anderson, 1989
- Pachycara suspectum (Garman, 1899)
- Pachycara thermophilum Geistdoerfer, 1994
References
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Pachycara in FishBase. June 2022 version.
- ^ Ralf Thiel; Thomas Kneblsberger; Terue Kihara; Klass Gerdes (2021). "Description of a new eelpout Pachycara angeloi sp. nov. (Perciformes: Zoarcidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields in the Indian Ocean". Zootaxa. 4980 (1): 99–112. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4980.1.6.
- ^ Anderson, M.E., Somerville, R. & Copley, J.T. (2016): A new species of Pachycara Zugmayer, 1911 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from deep-sea chemosynthetic environments in the Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa, 4066 (1): 71-77.
- ^ Corbella, C. & Møller, P.R. (2014): Description of a new deep-sea eelpout Pachycara matallanasi sp. nov. from the Solomon Sea (western South Pacific Ocean). Marine Biology Research, 11 (2): 180–187.
- ^ Shinohara, G. (2012). "A New Deep-sea Eelpout, Pachycara moelleri (Perciformes: Zoarcidae) from Japan" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Ser. A, Supplement No. 6: 51–58.
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