Microstomatidae

Microstomatidae
Slender argentine, Microstoma microstoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Osmeriformes
Family:	Microstomatidae
Genera
Microstoma Nansenia Xenophthalmichthys See text for species.

Microstomatidae is a family of osmeriform fishes.

They are native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are twenty species in three genera:

• Genus Microstoma
  • Slender argentine, Microstoma microstoma (Risso, 1810).
• Genus Nansenia
  • Nansenia ahlstromi Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
  • Nansenia antarctica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
  • Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan & Thompson, 1914.
  • Nansenia atlantica Blache & Rossignol, 1962.
  • Bluethroat argentine, Nansenia candida Cohen, 1958.
  • Stout argentine, Nansenia crassa Lavenberg, 1965.
  • Greenland argentine, Nansenia groenlandica (Reinhardt, 1840).
  • Nansenia iberica Matallanas, 1985.
  • Nansenia indica Kobyliansky, 1992.
  • Nansenia longicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
  • Nansenia macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1922).
  • Nansenia megalopa Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
  • Nansenia oblita (Sarato, 1888).
  • Nansenia obscura Kobyliansky & Usachev, 1992.
  • Nansenia pelagica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
  • Nansenia sanrikuensis Kanayama & Amaoka, 1983.
  • Nansenia tenera Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
  • Nansenia tenuicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
• Genus Xenophthalmichthys
  • Xenophthalmichthys danae Regan, 1925.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Microstomatidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
• "Microstomatidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=553195. Retrieved 28 March 2006.