Pseudopataecus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, velvetfishes belonging to the family Aploactinidae. This genus is endemic to the waters around Australia.
Pseudopataecus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, velvetfishes belonging to the family Aploactinidae. This genus is endemic to the waters around Australia.
==Taxonomy== Pseudopataecus was first described as a genus in 2004 by the Australian ichthyologist J. W. Johnson when he described the new species Pseudopataecus taenianotus from near Lady Musgrave Island in Queensland. Johnson designated this species as the type species of Pseudopataecus, as well as being the type by monotypy. This genus is classified within the family Aploactinidae in the suborder Scorpaenoidei within the order Scorpaeniformes, although this family is also treated as a subfamily of the stonefish family Synanceiidae within the Scorpaenoidei, which in turn is treated as a superfamily within the order Perciformes. The name of the genus, Pseudopataecus prefixed the genus Pataecus with pseudo, meaning "false", referring to the resemblance of this genus to the otherwise distantly related Pataecus.
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