Mueller's pearlside

Mueller's pearlside
Mueller's pearlside
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Stomiiformes
Family: Sternoptychidae
Subfamily: Maurolicinae
Genus: Maurolicus
Species: M. muelleri
Binomial name
Maurolicus muelleri
(Gmelin, 1789)

Mueller's pearlside or Mueller's bristle-mouth fish, Maurolicus muelleri, a marine hatchetfish of the genus Maurolicus, is found in deep tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans, from the surface to depths of 1,500 m. Its length is between five and eight cm.

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