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Chlorophthalmidae
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Greeneyes are deep-sea aulopiform marine fishes in the small family Chlorophthalmidae. Thought to have a circumglobal distribution in tropical and temperate waters, the family contains just 18 species in two genera. The family name Chlorophthalmidae derives from the Greek words chloros meaning "green" and ophthalmos meaning "eye".
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Vinony's link graph records 22 inbound references to Chlorophthalmidae, and connects out to Animalia, Greek and year.
Vinony files it under Chlorophthalmidae and Taxa named by David Starr Jordan.
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Species
greeneyes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderAulopiformes
- FamilyChlorophthalmidae
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via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 159
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Chlorophthalmidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Curacao, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Aulopiformes
- Image
- Chlorophthalmus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chlorophthalmidae
- taxon name
- Chlorophthalmidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Chlorophthalmidae
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Description
- Behaviour and reproduction
- Classification
- References
Greeneyes are deep-sea aulopiform marine fishes in the small family Chlorophthalmidae. Thought to have a circumglobal distribution in tropical and temperate waters, the family contains just 18 species in two genera. The family name Chlorophthalmidae derives from the Greek words chloros meaning "green" and ophthalmos meaning "eye".
Some species are of interest to commercial and subsistence fisheries; the fish are made into fish meal or sold fresh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chlorophthalmidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.