''Phycis'' is a genus of
phycid hake
The Phycidae are a family of hakes in the order Gadiformes. They are native to the Atlantic Ocean, but the juveniles of some species enter estuaries.
Sometimes this family is classified as the subfamily Phycinae of the cod family, Gadidae
The ...
s from the North Atlantic, including the
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...
.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Phycis blennoides''
( Brünnich, 1768) (Greater forkbeard)
* ''
Phycis chesteri''
Goode & T. H. Bean, 1878 (Longfin hake)
* ''
Phycis phycis''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1766) (Forkbeard)
References
Phycidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Johann Julius Walbaum
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