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Sternoptychidae (deepsea hatchetfishes)

Synonyms: Sternopthychidae

Wikipedia Abstract

The marine hatchetfishes or deep-sea hatchetfishes as well as the related bottlelights, pearlsides and constellationfishes are small deep-sea ray-finned fish of the stomiiform family Sternoptychidae. They are not closely related to and should not be confused with the freshwater hatchetfishes, which are teleosts in the characiform family Gasteropelecidae. The Sternoptychidae have 10 genera and about 70 species altogether.
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Genus

Araiophos (Bristlemouth) (2)
Argyripnus (Bristlemouth) (11)
Argyropelecus (hatchetfishes) (13)
Danaphos (Marine hatchetfish) (3)
Discosternon (1)
Eosternoptyx (1)
Maurolicus (17)
Polyipnoides (1)
Polyipnus (Marine hatchetfish) (41)
Sonoda (Marine hatchetfish) (2)
Sternoptyx (Marine hatchetfish) (7)
Thorophos (Bristlemouth) (2)
Valenciennellus (Marine hatchetfish) (6)

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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