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Stephanoberycidae
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Stephanoberycidae, the pricklefishes are a family of fishes in the order Beryciformes.
Species
pricklefishes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderStephanoberyciformes
- FamilyStephanoberycidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded396
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Stephanoberycidae
- Collections
- TCWC, VIMS, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Cuba
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Image
- Stephanoberyx monae.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stephanoberycidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Stephanoberycidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Stephanoberycidae
- taxon common name
- stefanoberyksowate
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Encyclopedic overview
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Stephanoberycidae, the pricklefishes are a family of fishes in the order Beryciformes.
They are found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stephanoberycidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.