Setarches

Setarches; Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Channeled Rockfish (S. guentheri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Setarchinae
Genus:	Setarches ; J. Y. Johnson, 1862

Last updated August 24, 2025

Setarches is a genus of deep-sea bristly scorpionfishes.

Species

There is currently one recognized species in this genus:^[1]

Setarches guentheri J. Y. Johnson, 1862 (Channelled rockfish)

An indeterminate fossil Setarches is known from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin, Russia.^[2]

References

↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Setarches". FishBase . December 2012 version.
↑ Nazarkin, Mikhail V. (2021-10-01). "The Structure of the Miocene Northwestern Pacific Ichthyofauna as Revealed By Two Fossil Fish Assemblages From Sakhalin Island, Russia". Paleontological Research. 25 (4). doi:10.2517/2021PR005. ISSN 1342-8144.

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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Setarches". FishBase . December 2012 version.

[2] Nazarkin, Mikhail V. (2021-10-01). "The Structure of the Miocene Northwestern Pacific Ichthyofauna as Revealed By Two Fossil Fish Assemblages From Sakhalin Island, Russia". Paleontological Research. 25 (4). doi:10.2517/2021PR005. ISSN 1342-8144.

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Setarches Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

Channeled Rockfish (S. guentheri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Scorpaenidae
Subfamily:	Setarchinae
Genus:	Setarches J. Y. Johnson, 1862