Setarches

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

Setarches is a genus of deep-sea bristly scorpionfishes.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1]

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

References

  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.