Iluocoetes is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The only species in the genus is Iluocoetes fimbriatus. This species is found off southern South America, off Chile and Argentina, in the southeastern Pacific and southwestern Atlantic Oceans.
Iluocoetes is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. The only species in the genus is Iluocoetes fimbriatus. This species is found off southern South America, off Chile and Argentina, in the southeastern Pacific and southwestern Atlantic Oceans.
==Taxonomy== Iluocoetes was first proposed as a monotypic genus in 1842 by the English clergyman and naturalist Leonard Jenyns when he described Iluocoetes fimbriatus with its type locality given as the Chiloé Archipelago in Chile. In 1898 the Danish zoologist Fredrik Adam Smitt described Phucocoetes variegatus in four forms, one of Smitt's forms, elongatus, was subsequently reclassified as Iliocoets elongatus and in 2012 this was reclassified into another monotypic genus Argentinolycus. Iluocoetes is classified within the subfamily Lycodinae, one of 4 subfamilies in the family Zoarcidae, the eelpouts. Some authorities include a second species, Iluocoetes facali, in the genus but others regard this taxon as a junior synonym of I. fimbriatus.
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