Bothrocarina

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Perciformes
Subordo: Cottoidei
Infraordo: Zoarcales

Familia: Zoarcidae
Genus: Bothrocarina
Species: B. microcephala – B. nigrocaudata
Name

Bothrocarina Suvorov, 1935
Vernacular names
日本語: オグロゲンゲ属

Bothrocarina is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The two species in this genus are found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy

Bothrocarina was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1935 by the Soviet zoologist Evgeni Suvurov when he described the new species Bothrocarina nigrocaudata from the Okhotsk Sea.[1][2] This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.[3] This genus is the sister taxon to Bothrocara, Lycodapus and Lycogrammoides, and these four genera form a clade within the subfamily Lycodinae.[4]
Species

Bothrocarina contains the following species:[5]

Bothrocarina microcephala (Schmidt, 1938)
Bothrocarina nigrocaudata Suvorov, 1935

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bothrocarina". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
Anderson , M. E. and V. V . Fedorov (2004). "Family Zoarcidae Swainson 1839 — eelpouts" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 34.
M. Eric Anderson; Duane E. Stevenson; Gento Shinohara (2009). "Systematic review of the genus Bothrocara Bean 1890 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae)". Ichthyological Research. 56 (2): 172–194. doi:10.1007/s10228-008-0086-6.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Bothrocarina in FishBase. June 2022 version.