Narcetes
Genus of fishes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Narcetes is a genus of slickheads. It was formally described by Alfred William Alcock in 1890. It currently contains six described species.
| Narcetes | |
|---|---|
| |
| Narcetes shonanmaruae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Alepocephaliformes |
| Family: | Alepocephalidae |
| Genus: | Narcetes Alcock, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| Narcetes erimelas Alcock, 1890[1] | |
| Species | |
|
6, see text. | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
The generic name is from Greek νάρκη (narkē, "electric ray" or "numbness") and -της (tēs, forming a masculine noun meaning, from a place).[2]
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[3][4]
- Narcetes erimelas Alcock, 1890
- Narcetes kamoharai Okamura, 1984
- Narcetes lloydi Fowler, 1934 (Lloyd's slickhead)
- Narcetes shonanmaruae Poulsen, H. Ida, Kawato & Fujiwara, 2021 (Yokozuna slickhead)
- Narcetes stomias (C. H. Gilbert, 1890) (Blackhead salmon)
- Narcetes wonderi Herre, 1935
