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Normichthys
Sign in to saveNormichthys is a genus of deepwater marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Platytroctidae, the tube shoulders. The species in this genus are known from tropical and temperate oceans around the world.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsmeriformes
- FamilyPlatytroctidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 31
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Platytroctidae
- Collections
- KU, NHMUK, ZMUC, AM, VIMS
- Recorded in
- United States, Angola, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, N/A
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Platytroctidae
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- taxon name
- Normichthys
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- Category:Normichthys
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Normichthys is a genus of deepwater marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Platytroctidae, the tube shoulders. The species in this genus are known from tropical and temperate oceans around the world.
The name of the genus honours the British ichthyologist John Roxborough Norman who reported the type species of this genus, N. operosus, as Talismania homoptera in 1930.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Normichthys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.