Cetomimidae

Cetomimidae sp.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stephanoberycoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Berycimorphaceae Ordo: Beryciformes Subordo: Stephanoberycoidei

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. Scientific Results of Explorations by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. No. XXVIII. On Cetomimidae and Rondeletiidae, two new families of bathybial fishes from the northwestern Atlantic. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17(1012): 451–454. BHL Reference page. 
• 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.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Cetomimidae  and its species in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

• English: flabby whalefishes
• polski: wielorybinkowate

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