Aiakas is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae the eelpouts. These fishes are found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
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Aiakas is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Zoarcidae the eelpouts. These fishes are found in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Aiakes was first proposed as a genus in 1974 by the Argentina based marine biologist Atila E. Gosztonyi. He named the new monospecific genus when he described its type species, and then only species, Aiakas kreffti, which had been collected from a depth of on the continental slope off Golfo San Jorge, Argentina. A second species, A. zinorum, was described by M. Eric Anderson and Gosztonyi in 1991, also from off southern Argentina. This genus is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts.
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