Gaidropsarus

Gaidropsarus
Threadfin rockling (G. ensis)
Three-bearded rockling (G. vulgaris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gadiformes
Family:	Gaidropsaridae
Genus:	Gaidropsarus Rafinesque, 1810
Type species
Gaidropsarus mustellaris Rafinesque, 1810
Synonyms
Antonogadus Wheeler, 1969 Motella Cuvier, 1829 Mustel Oken, 1817 Onogadus de Buen, 1934 Onos Risso, 1827 Onus Agassiz, 1846

Gaidropsarus is a genus of gaidropsarid ^[1] fishes, with these currently recognized species: ^[2]

• Gaidropsarus argentatus (J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1837) (Arctic rockling)
• Gaidropsarus biscayensis (Collett, 1890) (Mediterranean bigeye rockling)
• Gaidropsarus capensis (Kaup, 1858) (Cape rockling)
• Gaidropsarus ensis (J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1837) (threadfin rockling)
• Gaidropsarus granti (Regan, 1903) (Azores rockling)
• Gaidropsarus guttatus (Collett, 1890)
• Gaidropsarus insularum Sivertsen, 1945 (comb rockling)
• Gaidropsarus macrophthalmus (Günther, 1867) (bigeye rockling)
• Gaidropsarus mauritanicus (Knorrn, 2024)
• Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758) (shore rockling)
• Gaidropsarus novaezealandiae (Hector, 1874) (New Zealand ling)
• Gaidropsarus pacificus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
• Gaidropsarus pakhorukovi Shcherbachev, 1995
• Gaidropsarus parini Svetovidov (ru), 1986
• Gaidropsarus vulgaris (Cloquet, 1824) (three-bearded rockling)

The generic name derives from the Ancient Greek roots γῆ (gē, earth); υδρο- (hydro-, "water"); and ψαρός (psaros, "speckled"). ^[3]

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gaidropsaridae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 16 July 2025.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gaidropsarus". FishBase . April 2012 version.
3. "Gaidropsarus argentatus, Arctic rockling : fisheries". www.fishbase.de.