Cetomimidae

Cetomimidae sp.

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Infraclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Cetomimiformes
Familia: Cetomimidae
Genera: Ataxolepis – Cetichthys – Cetomimoides – Cetomimus – Cetostoma – Danacetichthys – Ditropichthys – Eutaeniophorus – Gyrinomimus – Megalomycter – Mirapinna – Notocetichthys – Parataeniophorus – Procetichthys – Rhamphocetichthys

Name

Cetomimidae Goode & Bean, 1895

Synonyms

• Megalomycteridae Myers & Freihofer, 1966
• Mirapinnidae

References

• Goode, G. B. & Bean, T. H. (1895) On Cetomimidae and Rondeletiidae, two new families of bathybial fishes from the northwestern Atlantic. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17: 451–454.
• Myers, G. S. & Freihofer, W. C. (1966) Megalomycteridae, a previously unrecognized family of deep-sea cetomimiform fishes based on two new genera from the North Atlantic. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin 8: 193–206
• Johnson, G. D., J. R. Paxton, T. T. Sutton, T. P. Satoh, T. Sado, M. Nishida & M. Miya (2009) Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families. Biology Letters 5: 235–239. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0722

Links

• Genera of Cetomimidae (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes,
  Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & Van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2016. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Cetomimidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2016. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 10/2015.

Vernacular Name

English: flabby whalefishes
polski: wielorybinkowate

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