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Diretmidae
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Spinyfins are a family, Diretmidae, of trachichthyform fishes. The family name is derived from the type genus, Diretmus, from Greek, di meaning "two" and eretmos meaning "oar". They are found worldwide in deep waters, as deep as .
Species
spinyfins
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderBeryciformes
- FamilyDiretmidae
黑銀眼鯛科（學名：Diretmidae）是輻鰭魚綱金眼鯛目的其中一科。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 62
- Family
- Diretmidae
- Collections
- ODU, CSIRO, USNM, LACM, WAM
- Recorded in
- Australia, United States, Indonesia, Kiribati
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Trachichthyiformes
- Image
- Diretmus argenteus.jpg
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- Diretmidae
- taxon name
- Diretmidae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Diretmidae
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Spinyfins are a family, Diretmidae, of trachichthyform fishes. The family name is derived from the type genus, Diretmus, from Greek, di meaning "two" and eretmos meaning "oar". They are found worldwide in deep waters, as deep as .
As the common name implies, spinyfins have heavy spines along their fins. They have deep, compressed bodies, and almost vertically aligned mouths. They are dark silver in colour, and reach up to in length.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diretmidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.