Bothrocarina

Bothrocarina is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The two species in this genus are found in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Bothrocarina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Zoarcidae
Subfamily:	Lycodinae
Genus:	Bothrocarina Evgeni Suvorov, 1935
Type species
Bothrocarina nigrocaudata Suvorov, 1935

Taxonomy

Bothrocarina was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1935 by the Soviet zoologist Evgeni Suvorov when he described the new species Bothrocarina nigrocaudata from the Okhotsk Sea.^[1][2] This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.^[3] This genus is the sister taxon to Bothrocara, Lycodapus and Lycogrammoides, and these four genera form a clade within the subfamily Lycodinae.^[4]

Species

Bothrocarina contains the following species:^[5]

• Bothrocarina microcephala (Schmidt, 1938)
• Bothrocarina nigrocaudata Evgeni Suvorov, 1935