Pholis

Pholis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Pholidae, the gunnels. These fishes are found in shallow coastal waters of the North Pacific, Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans.

==Taxonomy== Pholis was first proposed as a genus in 1777 by the Italian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli. The type species was later designated to be Blennius gunnellus, which Linnaeus had described in 1758 in the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae. The genus is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Pholinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Pholidae. The genus name Pholis is an Ancient Greek name for a fish that hides in a hole, the name dating at least as far back in history to Aristotle.