Ophiodon
Ophiodon elongatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Superfamily: Hexagrammoidea
Family: Hexagrammidae
Subfamily: Ophiodontinae
Genus: Ophiodon
Girard, 1854
Type species
Ophiodon elongatus
Girard, 1854[1]
Species

see text

Synonyms
  • Oplopoma Girard, 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 and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Ophiodon in 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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