Animalia > Chordata > Stomiiformes > Sternoptychidae > Polyipnus

Polyipnus (Marine hatchetfish)

Synonyms: Acanthopolyipnus; Polypnus

Wikipedia Abstract

Polyipnus is a genus of oceanic ray-finned fish in the family Sternoptychidae. This is the largest genus of the marine hatchetfishes subfamily Sternoptychinae and indeed of the entire Sternoptychidae. It is not quite as apomorphic as their relatives; it may be that the genus is actually a paraphyletic assemblage of less advanced Sternoptychinae and would need to be split. Fossils of this genus show that they have existed at least since the Early Oligocene, about 30 million years ago.
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Species

Polyipnus anteasteroides
Polyipnus aquavitus (Aquavit hatchetfish)
Polyipnus asper
Polyipnus asteroides (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus bruuni
Polyipnus clarus (slope hatchetfish)
Polyipnus danae
Polyipnus elongatus (Elongate hatchetfish)
Polyipnus fraseri (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus indicus (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus inermis
Polyipnus kirkii
Polyipnus kiwiensis (Kiwi hatchetfish)
Polyipnus laruei (Bigeye hatchetfish)
Polyipnus laternatus (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus latirastrus (Combside hatchetfish)
Polyipnus latus
Polyipnus limatulus
Polyipnus matsubarai (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus meteori
Polyipnus notatus
Polyipnus nuttingi (Nutting's hatchet fish)
Polyipnus oligocenicus
Polyipnus oluolus
Polyipnus omphus (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus ovatus
Polyipnus parini (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus paxtoni (Paxton's hatchetfish)
Polyipnus plebeius
Polyipnus polli (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus ruggeri (Rugby hatchetfish)
Polyipnus sobnioviensis
Polyipnus soelae (Soela hatchetfish)
Polyipnus spinifer (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus spinosus (Spiny hatchetfish)
Polyipnus stereope (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus surugaensis
Polyipnus tridentifer (Luminous fish)
Polyipnus triphanos (Threelight hatchetfish)
Polyipnus unispinus (Marine hatchetfish)
Polyipnus weitzmani

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