Pholidae

Taxobox
name = Gunnels

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image_caption = Crescent gunnel, "Pholis laeta"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Pholidae
familia_authority = Gill, 1893
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Apodichthys" "Pholis" "Rhodymenichthys" See text for species.The gunnels are a family, Pholidae, of fishes in the order Perciformes.

They are elongated fishes native to the coasts of the northern Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans, where they inhabit intertidal and subtidal waters and eat crustaceans and mollusks.

pecies

There are fifteen species in three genera.
* Genus "Apodichthys" Girard, 1854
** Penpoint gunnel, "Apodichthys flavidus" Girard, 1854.
** Rockweed gunnel, "Apodichthys fucorum" Jordan & Gilbert, 1880.
** Kelp gunnel, "Apodichthys sanctaerosae" (Gilbert & Starks, 1897).
* Genus "Pholis" Scopoli, 1777
** Longfin gunnel, "Pholis clemensi" Rosenblatt, 1964.
** "Pholis crassispina" (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
** "Pholis fangi" (Wang & Wang, 1935).
** Banded gunnel, "Pholis fasciata" (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
** Rock gunnel, "Pholis gunnellus" (Linnaeus, 1758).
** Crescent gunnel, "Pholis laeta" (Cope, 1873).
** "Pholis nea" Peden & Hughes, 1984.
** Tidepool gunnel, "Pholis nebulosa" (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
** Saddleback gunnel, "Pholis ornata" (Girard, 1854).
** "Pholis picta" (Kner, 1868).
** Red gunnel, "Pholis schultzi" Schultz, 1931.
* Genus "Rhodymenichthys" Jordan and Evermann, 1896
** Stippled gunnel, "Rhodymenichthys dolichogaster" (Pallas, 1814).

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