Hexagrammos

Hexagrammos is a genus of greenlings native to the north Pacific Ocean.

Hexagrammos
Kelp greenling (H. decagrammus)
Rock greenling (H. lagocephalus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Hexagrammidae
Genus: Hexagrammos
Tilesius, 1810
Type species
Hexagrammos stelleri

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Hexagrammos agrammus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)Spotty-bellied greenlingJapan, the Korean Peninsula and the Yellow Sea
Hexagrammos decagrammus (Pallas, 1810)kelp greenlingnorthern Pacific especially around British Columbia and Alaska
Hexagrammos lagocephalus (Pallas, 1810)rock greenlingPacific Coast from Alaska's Bering Sea to the coast of southern California.
Hexagrammos octogrammus (Pallas, 1814)masked greenlingSea of Okhotsk and northern Japan
Hexagrammos otakii D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1895Fat greenlingapan, the southern Korean Peninsula to the Yellow Sea
Hexagrammos stelleri Tilesius, 1810whitespotted greenlingPeter the Great Bay, Russia and the Sea of Japan to Cape Lisburne in the Chukchi Sea, Unimak Island in the Aleutian chain and Oregon, USA.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Hexagrammos in FishBase. December 2012 version.


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