Kasatkia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Opisthocentridae, the rearspined fin pricklebacks. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.
Kasatkia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Opisthocentridae, the rearspined fin pricklebacks. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Kasatkia was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1916 by the Russian zoologists Vladimir Soldatov and Mikhail Nikolaevich Pavlenko when the described Kasatkia memorabilis from south of Cape Gamov in the Sea of Japan. In 1999 a second species, the six-spot prickelback (K. seigeli) was described from California. The genus is placed in the family Opisthocentridae. Kasatkia is considered to be closely related to Askoldia.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).