Bothrocarina is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The two species in this genus are found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
| Bothrocarina | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Zoarcidae |
| Subfamily: | Lycodinae |
| Genus: | Bothrocarina Suvurov, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Bothrocarina nigrocaudata Suvorov, 1935
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Taxonomy edit
Bothrocarina was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1935 by the Soviet zoologist Evgeni Suvurov when he described the new species Bothrocarina nigrocaudata from the Okhotsk Sea.[1][2] This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.[3] This genus is the sister taxon to Bothrocara, Lycodapus and Lycogrammoides, and these four genera form a clade within the subfamily Lycodinae.[4]
Species edit
Bothrocarina contains the following species:[5]
- Bothrocarina microcephala (Schmidt, 1938)
- Bothrocarina nigrocaudata Suvorov, 1935
References edit
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bothrocarina". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Anderson , M. E. and V. V . Fedorov (2004). "Family Zoarcidae Swainson 1839 — eelpouts" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 34.
- ^ M. Eric Anderson; Duane E. Stevenson; Gento Shinohara (2009). "Systematic review of the genus Bothrocara Bean 1890 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae)". Ichthyological Research. 56 (2): 172–194. doi:10.1007/s10228-008-0086-6.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Bothrocarina in FishBase. June 2022 version.