Bentartia

Bentartia is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. Some authorities treat this genus as monospecific, with the only species being Bentartia cinerea of the Southern Ocean, but other authorities include 4 species from the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Bentartia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Zoarcidae
Subfamily: Lycodinae
Genus: Bentartia
Matallanas, 2010
Species:
B. cinerea
Binomial name
Bentartia cinerea
Matallanas, 2010

Taxonomy

Bentartia was first proposed as a genus by the Argentinian zoologist Jésus Matallanas when he described its only species B. ciberea with a type locality given as the Gerlache Strait in the Southern Ocean at 64°32'58"S, 61°97'38"W from a depth of 1,056 m (3,465 ft).[1] This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.[2]

Etymology

Bentartia is named after BENTART, the Spanish expeditions to the Antarctic, the holotype of B. cinerea was collected during these expeditions.[3]

Species

Fishbase only recognises one species, B. cinerea, within the genus but other authorities recognise the following species:[4]

  • Bentartia cinerea Matallanas, 2010
  • Bentartia elongata (Garman, 1899)
  • Bentartia nyx (Stevenson & Anderson, 2005)
  • Bentartia pusillum (Bean, 1890)

The other three species are included in Bothrocara by Fishbase.[5]

Distribution and habitat

Bentartia, as B. cinerea, was originally described from the Gerlache Strait.[6] The other species which have since been assigned to this genus are found in the eastern Pacific between the Bering Strait in the north and Chile in the south.[4] They are bathydemersal[2] and bathypelagic fishes.[7]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Bentartia cinerea" in FishBase. June 2022 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (6 May 2022). "Order Perciformes Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Zoarcales: Family: Zoarcidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bentartia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  5. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Bothrocara in FishBase. June 2022 version.
  6. Jesús Matallanas (2010). "Description of two new genera, Santelmoa and Bentartia and two new species of Zoarcidae (Teleostei, Perciformes) from the Southern Ocean". Polar Biology. 33 (5). doi:10.1007/s00300-009-0742-y.
  7. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Bothrocara nyx" in FishBase. June 2022 version.
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