Letholycus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. This is a small genus with only two species found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
| Letholycus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Suborder: | Zoarcoidei |
| Family: | Zoarcidae |
| Subfamily: | Lycodinae |
| Genus: | Letholycus M. E. Anderson, 1988 |
| Type species | |
| Melanostigma microphthalmus | |
Species edit
Letholycus contains the following two species:[2]
- Letholycus magellanicus M. E. Anderson, 1988
- Letholycus microphthalmus (Norman, 1937)
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 3 November 2022.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Letholycus in FishBase. June 2022 version.