Zoarces
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| Zoarces Fossil range: Pleistocene to Present[1] |
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Zoarces is a genus of eelpouts in the Zoarcidae family. Zoarces is also known as Macrozoarces. The members of this genus are ovoviviparous, giving birth to live young.
[edit] Species
- Ocean pout, Zoarces americanus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801).
- Zoarces elongatus Kner, 1868.
- Zoarces fedorovi Chereshnev, Nazarkin & Chegodayeva, 2007.[2]
- Zoarces gillii Jordan and Starks, 1905.
- Viviparous blenny, Zoarces viviparus (Linnaeus, 1758).
[edit] References
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560.
- ^ 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.
- "Zoarces". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. May 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
- Zoarces (TSN 165323). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on June 23, 2005.
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