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Sternoptychidae
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.
Argyropelecus hemigymnus
species of fish
Maurolicus muelleri
species of fish
Argyropelecus
Argyropelecus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus in the deep sea hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. A collective name is "silver hatchetfishes", but this can also refer to a species of the freshwater hatchetfishes which are not particularly closely related to this. The large pupils of these marine hatchetfishes enable them to see dim objects in the deep sea, where light barely penetrates.
diaphanous hatchetfish
species of fish
Giant hatchetfish
species of fish
Argyropelecus olfersii
species of fish
Argyropelecus affinis
species of fish
Argyropelecus aculeatus
species of fish
Sternoptyx
Sternoptyx is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. This is the type genus of the Sternoptychidae, as well as the marine hatchetfish subfamily Sternoptychinae.
Polyipnus nuttingi
species of fish
Argyripnus
Argyripnus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus in the marine hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as bristle-mouth fishes, but that may also refer to the related bristlemouth family (Gonostomatidae). A. iridescens is called "pearlside", which usually refers to the closely related genus Maurolicus.
Polyipnus clarus
species of fish
Polyipnus asteroides
species of fish
Araiophos eastropas
species of fish
Polyipnus tridentifer
species of fish
Argyripnus atlanticus
species of fish
Argyripnus ephippiatus
species of fish
Argyripnus brocki
species of fish
Polyipnus latirastrus
species of fish
Polyipnus stereope
species of fish
Polyipnus elongatus
species of fish
Polyipnus spinosus
species of fish
Polyipnus triphanos
species of fish
Polyipnus
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.
Polyipnus bruuni
species of fish
Argyropelecus sladeni
species of fish
Maurolicus
Maurolicus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the marine hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as pearlsides, but the brilliant pearlside is the related Argyripnus iridescens. Occasionally, "bristle-mouth fishes" is used as a common name, but that usually refers to the genus Argyripnus or the family Gonostomatidae.
Polyipnus danae
species of fish
Polyipnus ovatus
species of fish
Valenciennellus
Valenciennellus is a genus of marine hatchetfishes. They are commonly known as constellationfishes.
Polyipnus meteori
species of fish
Polyipnus oluolus
species of fish
Polyipnus fraseri
species of fish
Polyipnus soelae
species of fish
Maurolicus javanicus
species of fish
Polyipnus omphus
species of fish
Polyipnus aquavitus
species of fish
Maurolicus japonicus
species of fish
Polyipnus kiwiensis
species of fish
Polyipnus asper
species of fish
Maurolicus australis
species of fish
Argyripnus iridescens
species of fish
Polyipnus inermis
species of fish
Argyripnus electronus
species of fish
Polyipnus matsubarai
species of fish
Polyipnus indicus
species of fish
Valenciennellus tripunctulatus
species of fish
Maurolicus weitzmani
species of fish
Polyipnus spinifer
species of fish
Maurolicus walvisensis
species of fish
Maurolicus stehmanni
species of fish
Polyipnus parini
species of fish
Polyipnus limatulus
species of fish
Maurolicus kornilovorum
species of fish
Maurolicus mucronatus
species of fish
Maurolicus breviculus
species of fish
Polyipnus unispinus
species of fish
Maurolicus rudjakovi
species of fish
Polyipnus surugaensis
species of fish