Ophiodon

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Ophiodon
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Ophiodon elongatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Superfamily: Hexagrammoidea
Family: Hexagrammidae
Subfamily: Ophiodontinae
Genus: Ophiodon
Girard, 1854
Type species
Ophiodon elongatus
Girard, 1854 [1]
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • OplopomaGirard, 1856 [1]

Ophiodon is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Hexagrammidae, the greenlings. It is found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.

Species

Ophiodon has one extant species [2] and one known extinct species: [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Ophiodon". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ophiodon". FishBase . August 2022 version.
  3. ↑ Jordan, D. (1921). "The fish fauna of the California Tertiary". Stanford University Publications, Biological Sciences. 1 (4): 234–299.
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