''Tarphops'' 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 n ...
of
large-tooth flounders native to the northwest
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 contine ...
.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
Tarphops elegans
''Tarphops elegans'' is a species of large-tooth flounders native to the northwest 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 Sout ...
''
Amaoka, 1969
* ''
Tarphops oligolepis
''Tarphops'' is a genus of large-tooth flounders native to the northwest Pacific Ocean.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* '' Tarphops elegans'' Amaoka, 1969
* '' Tarphops oligolepis'' (Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occu ...
''
( Bleeker, 1858)
References
Paralichthyidae
Marine fish genera
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
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