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
Subfamilia: Lycodinae
Genus: Letholycus
Species (2): L. magellanicus – L. microphthalmus
Name
Letholycus Anderson, 1988: 272
Gender: masculine
Type species: Melanostigma microphthalmus Norman, 1937
Fixation: original designation
References
Anderson, M.E. 1988: Studies on the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) of the Southern Hemisphere. II. Two new genera and a new species from temperate South America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, series 4, 45 (11): 267–276.
Links
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Nomenclator Zoologicus
Letholycus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Letholycus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
ITIS
Letholycus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. This is a small genus with only two species found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
Species
Letholycus contains the following two species:[2]
Letholycus magellanicus M. E. Anderson, 1988
Letholycus microphthalmus (Norman, 1937)
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Letholycus in FishBase. June 2022 version.
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