Hexagrammos
Hexagrammos is a genus of greenlings native to the north Pacific Ocean.
| Hexagrammos | |
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| Kelp greenling (H. decagrammus) | |
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| Rock greenling (H. lagocephalus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Hexagrammidae |
| Genus: | Hexagrammos Tilesius, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Hexagrammos stelleri | |
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Hexagrammos agrammus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) | Spotty-bellied greenling | Japan, the Korean Peninsula and the Yellow Sea |
.jpg.webp) | Hexagrammos decagrammus (Pallas, 1810) | kelp greenling | northern Pacific especially around British Columbia and Alaska |
 | Hexagrammos lagocephalus (Pallas, 1810) | rock greenling | Pacific Coast from Alaska's Bering Sea to the coast of southern California. |
| Hexagrammos octogrammus (Pallas, 1814) | masked greenling | Sea of Okhotsk and northern Japan | |
_(15257759469).jpg.webp) | Hexagrammos otakii D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1895 | Fat greenling | apan, the southern Korean Peninsula to the Yellow Sea |
| Hexagrammos stelleri Tilesius, 1810 | whitespotted greenling | Peter the Great Bay, Russia and the Sea of Japan to Cape Lisburne in the Chukchi Sea, Unimak Island in the Aleutian chain and Oregon, USA. | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Hexagrammos in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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