Alepocephaliformes

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Alepocephaliformes
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California slickhead, Alepocephalus tenebrosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Cohort: Otocephala
Superorder: Alepocephali
Order: Alepocephaliformes
Marshall, 1962 [1]
Type species
Alepocephalus rostratus
Families

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Alepocephaliformes is an order of marine deep-sea teleost fishes. [2] It was previously classified as the suborder Alepocephaloidei of the order Argentiniformes. [3] [4] [5]

As an adaptation to a life in the deep-sea, there is no swim bladder, and the ossification of the skeleton is reduced. [2] The largest known member is Narcetes shonanmaruae , the largest deep-sea-endemic bony fish. [6] [7]

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References

  1. Thomas J. Near; Christine E. Thacker. "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 65 (1): 3–302. doi:10.3374/014.065.0101.
  2. 1 2 The Emerging Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of Actinopterygian Fishes
  3. Betancur-R., Ricardo; Wiley, Edward O.; Arratia, Gloria; Acero, Arturo; Bailly, Nicolas; Miya, Masaki; Lecointre, Guillaume; Ortí, Guillermo (6 July 2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (1): 162. Bibcode:2017BMCEE..17..162B. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 . ISSN   1471-2148. PMC   5501477 . PMID   28683774.
  4. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). "Order Alepocephaliformes". FishBase .
  5. Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   9781118342336. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  6. Fujiwara, Y.; Kawato, M.; Poulsen, J. Y.; Ida, H.; Chikaraishi, Y.; Ohkouchi, N.; Oguri, K.; Gotoh, S.; Ozawa, G.; Tanaka, S.; Miya, M.; Sado, T.; Kimoto, K.; Toyofuku, T.; Tsuchida, S. (2021). "Discovery of a colossal slickhead (Alepocephaliformes: Alepocephalidae): An active-swimming top predator in the deep waters of Suruga Bay, Japan". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 2490. Bibcode:2021NatSR..11.2490F. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-80203-6. PMC   7835233 . PMID   33495481.
  7. Fujiwara, Yoshihiro; Tsuchida, Shinji; Kawato, Masaru; Masuda, Kotohiro; Sakaguchi, Sakiko Orui; Sado, Tetsuya; Miya, Masaki; Yoshida, Takao (2022-07-01). "Detection of the Largest Deep-Sea-Endemic Teleost Fish at Depths of Over 2,000 m Through a Combination of eDNA Metabarcoding and Baited Camera Observations". Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.945758 . ISSN   2296-7745.