Animalia > Chordata > Aulopiformes > Ipnopidae

Ipnopidae (blind lizardfishes and grideye fishes)

Synonyms: Bathypteroidae

Wikipedia Abstract

The Ipnopidae (deepsea tripod fishes) are a family of fishes in the order Aulopiformes. They are small, slender fishes, with maximum length ranging from about 10 to 40 cm (3.9 to 15.7 in). They are found in temperate and tropical deep waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
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Genus

Bathymicrops (Tripodfish) (4)
Bathypterois (Tripodfish) (19)
Bathysauropsis (2)
Bathytyphlops (Tripodfish) (2)
Discoverichthys (1)
Ipnops (Tripodfish) (3)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0