''Phycis'' is a genus of
phycid hakes from the North Atlantic, including the
Mediterranean Sea
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Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
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Phycis blennoides
''Phycis blennoides'', the greater forkbeard, is a species of fish
A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, bu ...
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( Brünnich, 1768) (Greater forkbeard)
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Phycis chesteri''
Goode & T. H. Bean, 1878 (Longfin hake)
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Phycis phycis''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1766) (Forkbeard)
References
Phycidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Johann Julius Walbaum
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