Gaidropsarus
| Gaidropsarus Temporal range:
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| Threadfin rockling (G. ensis) | |
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| Three-bearded rockling (G. vulgaris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Gaidropsaridae |
| Genus: | Rafinesque, 1810 |
| Type species | |
| Gaidropsarus mustellaris Rafinesque, 1810
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| Synonyms | |
Gaidropsarus is a genus of gaidropsarid[1] fishes, with these currently recognized species:[2]
- Gaidropsarus argentatus (J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1837) (Arctic rockling)
- Gaidropsarus biscayensis (Collett, 1890) (Mediterranean bigeye rockling)
- Gaidropsarus capensis (Kaup, 1858) (Cape rockling)
- Gaidropsarus ensis (J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1837) (threadfin rockling)
- Gaidropsarus granti (Regan, 1903) (Azores rockling)
- Gaidropsarus guttatus (Collett, 1890)
- Gaidropsarus insularum Sivertsen, 1945 (comb rockling)
- Gaidropsarus macrophthalmus (Günther, 1867) (bigeye rockling)
- Gaidropsarus mauritanicus (Knorrn, 2024)
- Gaidropsarus mediterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758) (shore rockling)
- Gaidropsarus novaezealandiae (Hector, 1874) (New Zealand ling)
- Gaidropsarus pacificus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)
- Gaidropsarus pakhorukovi Shcherbachev, 1995
- Gaidropsarus parini Svetovidov (ru), 1986
- Gaidropsarus vulgaris (Cloquet, 1824) (three-bearded rockling)
The following fossil species are also known:
- †Gaidropsarus murdjadjensis (Arambourg, 1928) - latest Miocene (Messinian) of Algeria.[3][4]
- †Gaidropsarus pilleri Carnevale, 2013 - Middle Miocene (Serravallian) of Austria[5]
The generic name derives from the Ancient Greek roots γῆ (gē, earth); υδρο- (hydro-, "water"); and ψαρός (psaros, "speckled").[6]
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Gaidropsaridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Gaidropsarus". FishBase. April 2012 version.
- ^ Gaudant, Jean (2008). "Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l'exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d'Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie)". Geodiversitas. 30 (1): 141–163.
- ^ Zoological Record. J.V. Voorst. 1928.
- ^ Carnevale, Giorgio; Harzhauser, M. (2013). "Middle Miocene rockling (teleostei, Gadidae) from the Paratethys (St. Margarethen in Burgenland, Austria)". Bulletin of Geosciences. 88 (3): 609–620. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci-1432.
- ^ "Gaidropsarus argentatus, Arctic rockling : fisheries". www.fishbase.de.