''Amphistichus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

surfperch The surfperches are a family of perciform fishes, the Embiotocidae. They are mainly found in northeast Pacific Ocean (as far south as Baja California), but a few species (genera '' Ditrema'' and '' Neoditrema'') are found in the northwest Pacifi ...

es 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 continen ...

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''

Amphistichus argenteus ''Amphistichus'' is a genus of surfperches native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * '' Amphistichus argenteus'' Agassiz, 1854 (Barred surfperch) * '' Amphistichus koelzi'' ( C. L. ...

Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...

, 1854 (Barred surfperch) * '' Amphistichus koelzi'' ( C. L. Hubbs, 1933) (Calico surfperch) * '' Amphistichus rhodoterus'' (

, 1854) (Redtail surfperch)

References

Embiotocidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Louis Agassiz {{ray-finned fish-stub