Zoarces

Zoarces Temporal range: Pleistocene to Present^[1]

Zoarces viviparus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Zoarcidae
Genus:	Zoarces Cuvier, 1829
Species
See text.

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.

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).

References

^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: p.560. http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2007-12-25.
^ 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.

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). Species of Zoarces in FishBase. May 2005 version.
"Zoarces". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=165323. Retrieved June 23, 2005.