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Pachycara

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Pachycara is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The fishes in this genus are found in the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Pacific Ocean.

There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

^ ^a ^b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lycodinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Pachycara in FishBase. June 2022 version.
^ Ralf Thiel; Thomas Kneblsberger; Terue Kihara; Klass Gerdes (2021). "Description of a new eelpout Pachycara angeloi sp. nov. (Perciformes: Zoarcidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields in the Indian Ocean". Zootaxa. 4980 (1): 99–112. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.4980.1.6.
^ Anderson, M.E., Somerville, R. & Copley, J.T. (2016): A new species of Pachycara Zugmayer, 1911 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) from deep-sea chemosynthetic environments in the Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa, 4066 (1): 71-77.
^ Corbella, C. & Møller, P.R. (2014): Description of a new deep-sea eelpout Pachycara matallanasi sp. nov. from the Solomon Sea (western South Pacific Ocean). Marine Biology Research, 11 (2): 180–187.
^ Shinohara, G. (2012). "A New Deep-sea Eelpout, Pachycara moelleri (Perciformes: Zoarcidae) from Japan" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Ser. A, Supplement No. 6: 51–58.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)