Rathbunella
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| Rathbunella | |
|---|---|
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| Stripefin Ronquil (R. hypoplecta) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Bathymasteridae |
| Genus: | Rathbunella D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1896 |
| Type species | |
| Bathymaster hypoplectus | |
Rathbunella is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Bathymasteridae, the ronquils. These fishes are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Rathbunella was first proposed as a monotypic genus by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann in 1896 with Bathymaster hypoplectus, which had been described by Charles Henry Gilbert from Southern California in 1890, as its type species.[1][2] The genus is classified in the family Bathymasteridae which is in the Scorpaeniform suborder Zoarcoidei.[3] The genus name, Rathbunella, honors Richard Rathbun, who was the chief of the Division of Scientific Inquiry in the United States Fish Commission, in recognition of his services to science.[4]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[5]
- Rathbunella alleni Gilbert, 1904
- Rathbunella hypoplecta (Gilbert, 1890) (Stripefin ronquil)