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Anoplopomatidae

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Anoplopomatidae, the sablefishes, are a small family of ray-finned fishes classified within the order Perciformes. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Vinony's link graph records 9 inbound references to Anoplopomatidae, and connects out to order, Actinopterygii and sablefish.

Vinony files it under Anoplopomatidae, Perciformes families and Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert.

Vinony links it to 25 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

sablefishes

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderScorpaeniformes
  5. FamilyAnoplopomatidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded69,889

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Museum specimens

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1
Family
Anoplopomatidae
Collections
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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Image
Sablefish resting on sediment.jpg
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Commons category
Anoplopomatidae
taxon rank
family
taxon name
Anoplopomatidae
topic's main category
Category:Anoplopomatidae
taxon common name
sobelfiskfamilien
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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Taxonomy
  • Genera
  • Characteristics
  • Distribution
  • References

Anoplopomatidae, the sablefishes, are a small family of ray-finned fishes classified within the order Perciformes. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Anoplopomatidae was first proposed as a family in 1883 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert. In 1965 Jay C. Quast proposed that the sablefishes were so different from other members of the Cottoidei that they should be classified within their own superfamily, the Anoplopomatoidea. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this superfamily within the suborder Cottoidei of the order Scorpaeniformes. However, other authorities place it within the infraorder Anoplopomatales which is close to the infraorder Zoarcales at the base of the Cottoidei within the order Perciformes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anoplopomatidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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