Letholycus

Genus of ray-finned fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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Letholycus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Zoarcoidei
Family: Zoarcidae
Subfamily: Lycodinae
Genus: Letholycus
M. E. Anderson, 1988
Type species
Melanostigma microphthalmus
Norman, 1937[1]
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Species

Letholycus contains the following two species:[2]

  • Letholycus magellanicus M. E. Anderson, 1988
  • Letholycus microphthalmus (Norman, 1937)

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