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Sternoptyx
Sign in to saveSternoptyx is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. This is the type genus of the Sternoptychidae, as well as the marine hatchetfish subfamily Sternoptychinae.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderStomiiformes
- FamilySternoptychidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 550
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Sternoptychidae
- Collections
- UWFC, SIO, TCWC, NHMUK, ICML-UNAM, NMV
- Recorded in
- United States, Spain, Bermuda, Mexico, Portugal, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- marine hatchetfish
- Image
- Sternoptyx diaphana1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Sternoptyx
- taxon name
- Sternoptyx
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Sternoptyx
- start time
- 40000000-0
- taxon author citation
- Hermann, 1781
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Sternoptyx is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. This is the type genus of the Sternoptychidae, as well as the marine hatchetfish subfamily Sternoptychinae.
Sternoptyx have silvery, high, and laterally compressed bodies and large, non-telescopic eyes. They are all relatively small, with even the largest species (S. pseudobscura and S. pseudodiaphana) not exceeding standard length.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sternoptyx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.