''Amphistichus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
surfperches native to the eastern
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...
.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Amphistichus argenteus''
Agassiz, 1854 (Barred surfperch)
* ''
Amphistichus koelzi''
( C. L. Hubbs, 1933) (Calico surfperch)
* ''
Amphistichus rhodoterus''
( Agassiz, 1854) (Redtail surfperch)
References
Embiotocidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Louis Agassiz
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