Pricklefish

Pricklefish

Taxobox
name = Pricklefishes


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Stephanoberyx monae"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Stephanoberyciformes
familia = Stephanoberycidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Acanthochaenus" "Malacosarcus" "Stephanoberyx" See text for species.

Pricklefishes are a family, Stephanoberycidae, of fishes in the order Stephanoberyciformes.

They are found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa.

They are deep-water fishes and have been found down to 5,000 m. It is thought that they are bathypelagic (deep ocean dwelling) or benthic (bottom dwelling) as they are known to eat crabs.

Their common name derives from the large spiny form of their scales in some species.

Species

There are four species in four genera:
* Genus "Abyssoberyx"
** "Abyssoberyx levisquamosus" Merrett & Moore, 2005.
* Genus "Acanthochaenus"
** "Acanthochaenus luetkenii" Gill, 1884.
* Genus "Malacosarcus"
** "Malacosarcus macrostoma" (Günther, 1878).
* Genus "Stephanoberyx"
** "Stephanoberyx monae" Gill, 1883.

References

*FishBase family | family = Stephanoberycidae | year = 2006 | month = MarchFebruary
*Merrett, N. R. and J. A. Moore. 2005. A new genus and species of deep demersal fish (Teleostei: Stephanoberycidae) from the tropical eastern North Atlantic. Journal of Fish Biology 67:1699–1710.


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