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''Phycis'' is a genus of phycid hakes 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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...
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Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''
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 ...
'' ( 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 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 {{Gadiformes-stub