Zoarces
| Zoarces Temporal range: Pleistocene to Present[1]
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| Genus: | Zoarces Cuvier, 1829
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Zoarces is a genus of eelpouts in the family Zoarcidae. The members of this genus are ovoviviparous, giving birth to live young.
Species include:[2]
- Zoarces americanus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) - ocean pout
- Zoarces andriashevi (Parin, Grigoryev & Karmovskaya, 2005)
- Zoarces elongatus (Kner, 1868)
- Zoarces fedorovi (Chereshnev, Nazarkin & Chegodayeva, 2007)[3]
- Zoarces gillii (Jordan and Starks, 1905) - blotched eelpout
- Zoarces viviparus (Linnaeus, 1758) - viviparous eelpout
References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
- ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Zoarces. FishBase. 2013.
- ^ Chereshnev, Nazarkin & Chegodayeva (2007). "Zoarces fedorovi sp. nova (Perciformes: Zoarcidae), a new species of eelpout from the Tauyskaya Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk". Voprosy Ikhtiologii. 47 (5): 589–600.
External links
- "Zoarces". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 23, 2005.
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