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The Gonostomatidae are a family of mesopelagic marine fish, commonly named bristlemouths, lightfishes, or anglemouths. It is a relatively small family, containing only eight known genera and 32 species. However, bristlemouths make up for their lack of diversity with relative abundance, numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions. [1]
Stylephorus chordatus, the tube-eye or thread-tail, is a deep-sea ray-finned fish, the only species in the genus Stylephorus and family Stylephoridae. [1] [2] It is found in deep subtropical and tropical oceans around the world, living at depths during the day and making nightly vertical migrations to feed on plankton. It is an extremely ...
The Pacific barreleye fish [1] (Macropinna) is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to Opisthoproctidae, the barreleye family. It contains one species, M. microstoma . It is recognized for a highly unusual transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head, through which the lenses of its eyes can be seen.
The small mouth is located on the lower part of the head and has thick lips. Its back slopes gradually and ends in a fine tail. Rabbitfish were recently caught off of the coast of Greenland and were taken to do research on the various parasites in and on the fish. Nine parasites were recorded for the H. Affinis species.
The small-mouth righteye flounder (Nematops microstoma) is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on saltwater bottoms from depths of 304 metres (997 ft). Its natural habitat is the tropical waters of the southwest Pacific. It can grow up to 10 centimetres (3.9 in) in length.
The witch is a right-eyed flatfish with a small mouth [3] which reaches the forward edge of the lower eye. [4] The mouth contains a single series of small, incisor like teeth. [ 3 ] It has a small head which takes up a fifth of the total length with large, open blister-like mucous pits on its blind side [ 3 ] Its body is strongly, dorsally ...
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The Long-jawed Mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis), a similar species, also displays gaping behavior and elongated maxillae, indicating convergent evolution related to shelter defense strategies. [5] Out of the three fringehead species (Sarcastic, Onespot, and Yellowfin), the sarcastic fringehead is the most aggressive. [8]