Setarches
| Setarches Temporal range:
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| Channeled Rockfish (S. guentheri) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]
- Setarches guentheri J. Y. Johnson, 1862 (Channelled rockfish)
- Setarches longimanus (Alcock, 1894) (Red deepwater scorpionfish)
An indeterminate fossil Setarches is known from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin, Russia.[2]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Setarches". FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ 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.