Ariopsis (fish)
Ariopsis is a genus of sea catfishes found along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the Americas. The genus has been merged with Sciades by some authorities.[1]
| Ariopsis | |
|---|---|
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| Ariopsis felis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Ariidae |
| Subfamily: | Ariinae |
| Genus: | Ariopsis T. N. Gill, 1861 |
| Type species | |
| Silurus felis Linnaeus, 1766 | |
Species
There are currently four described species in this genus:[2]
- Ariopsis assimilis (Günther, 1864) (Mayan sea catfish)
- Ariopsis felis (Linnaeus, 1766) (Hardhead sea catfish)
- Ariopsis guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) (Blue sea catfish)
- Ariopsis seemanni (Günther, 1864) (Tete sea catfish)
gollark: I could probably draw my own equally arbitrary ones.
gollark: Why specifically *those*?
gollark: If you just define anything which happens as being part of the balance retroactively, then it is not meaningful to complain about it.
gollark: Well, it's a thing which happens in nature.
gollark: There was an experiment which wanted to demonstrate group selection. They put flies that in an environment with limited resources which could only support so many fly children. If nature was nice and kind, they would magically turn down their breeding. As is quite obvious in retrospect, evolutionary processes would *never do this* and they cannibalized each other's young.
References
- "Ariopsis Gill, 1861". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Ariopsis in FishBase. December 2011 version.
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