Davidijordania

Davidijordania
Davidijordania poecilimon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Zoarcidae
Subfamily: Gymnelinae
Genus: Davidijordania
Popov, 1931
Type species
Lycenchelys lacertinus

Davidijordania is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The fishes in this genus are found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

Davidiordania was first proposed as a genus in 1931 by the Soviet biologist Alexander Mikhailovich Popov with Lycenchelys lacertinus, which had been described from Peter the Great Bay in Russia by Mikhail Nikolaevich Pavlenko in 1910, designated as its type species.[1] The genus is placed in the subfamily Gymnelinae of the eelpout family, Zoarcidae.[2] The genus name honours the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan who was renowned for his work on the fishes of the Pacific Ocean.[3]

Species

The following species are classified within the genus Davidijordania:[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gymnelinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  2. ^ Anderson , M. E. and V. V . Fedorov (2004). "Family Zoarcidae Swainson 1839 — eelpouts" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 34.
  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 5 October 2022.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Davidijordania". FishBase. June 2022 version.