Plesienchelys
Plesienchelys is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. Its only species is Plesienchelys stehmanni, which is found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the Río de la Plata to the Falkland Islands.[2]
| Plesienchelys | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Zoarcidae |
| Subfamily: | Lycodinae |
| Genus: | Plesienchelys (Gosztonyi, 1977)[1] |
| Species: | P. stehmanni |
| Binomial name | |
| Plesienchelys stehmanni M. E. Anderson, 1988 | |
References
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Plesienchelys stehmanni" in FishBase. June 2022 version.
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