Stichaeopsis
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| Stichaeopsis Temporal range: | |
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| Stichaeopsis nana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Stichaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Stichaeinae |
| Genus: | Stichaeopsis Kner, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Stichaeopsis nana Kner, 1870[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Stichaeopsis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Stichaeidae, the pricklebacks or shannies. These fishes are found in the western North Pacific Ocean.
Species
Stichaeopsis was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1870 by the Austrian ichthyologist Rudolf Kner with Stichaeopsis nana, which was described as a new species by Kner from Decastris Bay on the Tatar Strait in the northern Sea of Japan, as its only species.[1][2] This genus is classified within the subfamily Stichaeinae of the Zoarcoid family Stichaeidae.[3]
Stichaeopsis contains three extant and one known extinct species, as follows:[4][5]
- Stichaeopsis epallax (Jordan & Snyder, 1902)
- Stichaeopsis nana Kner, 1870
- Stichaeopsis nevelskoi (Schmidt, 1904)
- †Stichaeopsis sakhalinensis Nazarkin, 1998
† means extinct
Etymology
Stichaeopsis means "having the appearance of Stichaeus, by which Kner is thought to have meant that the type species S. nana was similar in appearance to Stichaeus species.[6]