Plesienchelys

Plesienchelys is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. Its only species is Plesienchelys stehmanni, which is found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the Río de la Plata to the Falkland Islands.^[2]

Plesienchelys
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Zoarcidae
Subfamily:	Lycodinae
Genus:	Plesienchelys (Gosztonyi, 1977)[1]
Species:	P. stehmanni
Binomial name
Plesienchelys stehmanni M. E. Anderson, 1988