Aetheliparis

Aetheliparis is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Liparidae, the snailfishes. One species known from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North America and the other from the Pacific Ocean near New Zealand.

Aetheliparis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Liparidae
Genus: Aetheliparis
Stein, 2012
Type species
Psednos rossi
Chernova & Stein 2004

Taxonomy

Aetheliparis was first proposed as a genus in 2012 by David Leslie Stein. Stein was describing a new species of snailfish from New Zealand which was very similar to a species he and Natalia Valentina Chernova had described as Psednos rossi from the western North Atlantic in 2004. Stein designated P. rossi as the type species of the new genus Aetheliparis and included the new species, A. taurocanis, in the new genus.[1] FishBase retains P. rossi in the genus Psednos and lists A. taurocanis as the only species in Aetheliparis despite the type species of Aetheliparis not being included.[2]

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[3]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Liparidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2023). Species of Aetheliparis in FishBase. February 2023 version.
  3. Stein, D.L. (2012): A Review of the Snailfishes (Liparidae, Scorpaeniformes) of New Zealand, Including Descriptions of a New Genus and Sixteen New Species. Zootaxa, 3588: 1–54.


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