Taxobox
name = Beardfishes
image_width = 240px
image_caption = Stout beardfish, "Polymixia nobilis"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Polymixiiformes
familia = Polymixiidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Polymixia" Lowe, 1838
"Berycopsis" (extinct)
"Dalmatichthys" (extinct)
"Omosoma" (extinct)
"Omosomopsis" (extinct)
The beardfishes are a small family (Polymixiidae) of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels.
They are found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific Ocean.
Classification
Ten species of the single extant genus "Polymixia" are known,
At present they are classified in their own order Polymixiiformes,[FishBase order | order = Polymixiiformes | month = February | year = 2006] but as Nelson says, "few groups have been shifted back and forth as frequently as this one". [cite book | author = Joseph S. Nelson | title = Fishes of the World | publisher = John Wiley & Sons | id = ISBN 0-471-54713-1] Previous groupings include Beryciformes.]* Beardfish, "Polymixia lowei" Günther, 1859.
* Pacific beardfish, "Polymixia berndti" Gilbert, 1905.
* "Polymixia salagomeziensis" Kotlyar, 1991.
* "Polymixia fusca" Kotthaus, 1970.
* "Polymixia yuri" Kotlyar, 1982.
* "Polymixia longispina" Deng, Xiong & Zhan, 1983.
* Stout beardfish, "Polymixia nobilis" Lowe, 1838.
* "Polymixia busakhini" Kotlyar, 1993.
* "Polymixia sazonovi" Kotlyar, 1992.
* Silver eye, "Polymixia japonica" Günther, 1877.
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