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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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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