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Ostracoberyx
Sign in to saveOstracoberyx is a genus of shellskin alfonsinos, the only recognized genus in the family Ostracoberycidae. This is a genus of deep-water fishes native to the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
Species
オニガシラ属
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyOstracoberycidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Ostracoberycidae
- Collections
- USNM, ANSP, CSIRO, AM, LACM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Salomon(I.), Vanuatu, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Norfolk(I.)
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ostracoberycidae
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Ostracoberyx
- start time
- 55500000-0
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Ostracoberyx is a genus of shellskin alfonsinos, the only recognized genus in the family Ostracoberycidae. This is a genus of deep-water fishes native to the Indian and western Pacific oceans.
==Species== There are currently three recognized species in this genus: Ostracoberyx dorygenys Fowler, 1934 Ostracoberyx fowleri Matsubara, 1939 Ostracoberyx paxtoni Quéro & Ozouf-Costaz, 1991 (Spinycheek seabass)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ostracoberyx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.