Furcina

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Furcina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Cottidae
Subfamily: Cottinae
Genus: Furcina
D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904
Type species
Furcina ishikawae
D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904

Furcina is a small genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This species is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean from around Japan and the Republic of Korea.

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Taxonomy

Furcina was first proposed as a genus in 1904 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks with Furcina ishikawae, which was a new species described by Jordan and Starks from Japan, designated as the type species. [1] [2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus within the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae, [3] However, other authors classify the genus within the subfamily Oligocottinae of the family Psychrolutidae. [1]

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: [4]

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<i>Bero elegans</i> Species of fish

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<i>Enophrys</i> Genus of fishes

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<i>Stelgistrum</i> Genus of fishes

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References

  1. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Oligocottinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Furcina". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Furcina in FishBase . December 2012 version.