Pagetopsis
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| Pagetopsis | |
|---|---|
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| P. macropterus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Channichthyidae |
| Genus: | Pagetopsis Regan, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Champsocephalus macropterus Boulenger, 1907 | |
Pagetopsis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Channichthyidae, the crocodile icefishes. The species in this genus are found in the Southern Ocean.
Pagetopsis was described as a genus in 1913 by the English ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan as a monotypic genus which had Champsocephalus macropterus, which had been described by the Belgian-born British ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger in 1907, as its only species.[1] The genus name is a combination of opsis with Pagetodes, the name given by John Richardson in 1843 to an icefish frozen on the bow of HMS Terror which had been eaten by a cat before it could be preserved, Regan said that Pagetodes could not be used until that fish was rediscovered.[2]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Pagetopsis macropterus (Boulenger, 1907)
- Pagetopsis maculata Barsukov & Permitin, 1958