Genus of fishes
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.
Taxonomy
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
Bothrocarina contains the following species:[5]
References
^ 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.