Argyropelecus lychnus, conventional and X-ray images
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Stomiiformes
Family:
Sternoptychidae
Subfamily:
Sternoptychinae
Genus:
Argyropelecus Cocco, 1829
Diversity
7 species
Argyropelecus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus in the deep sea hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. A collective name is "silver hatchetfishes", but this can also refer to a species of the freshwater hatchetfishes which are not particularly closely related to this. The large pupils of these marine hatchetfishes enable them to see dim objects in the deep sea, where light barely penetrates.
Argyropelecus gigas, the giant hatchetfish or greater silver hatchetfish, is a marine fish of the genus Argyropelecus. It is found in every ocean except...
Argyropelecus olfersii is a common species of marine hatchetfish, found in mesopelagic waters. Argyropelecus olfersii was described by Georges Cuvier in...
Argyropelecus hemigymnus, the half-naked hatchetfish, short silver hatchetfish or spurred hatchetfish, is a deep-sea hatchetfish of the genus Argyropelecus...
at 2.8 cm (1.1 in) to the c.12 cm (4.7 in)-long giant hatchetfish (Argyropelecus gigas). They are small deep-sea fishes which have evolved a peculiar...
Argyropelecus aculeatus, the lovely hatchetfish or Atlantic silver hatchetfish, is a species of fish in the family Sternoptychidae. It may exceed 70 millimetres...
Argyropelecus sladeni, or Sladen's hatchetfish, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Sternoptychidae, found in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic...
Nicolas (2015). "Argyropelecus affinis Garman, 1899". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 17 February 2016. "Argyropelecus affinis". Fishes...
at 2.8 cm (1.1 in) to the c.12 cm (4.7 in)-long giant hatchetfish (Argyropelecus gigas). The members of the disputed subfamily Maurolicinae have a more...
PMID 22035300. "Nitric oxide in control of luminescence from hatchetfish (Argyropelecus hemigymnus) photophores". JEB. Journal of Experimental Biology. 25 July...
Moyle and Cech, p. 586 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2009). "Argyropelecus aculeatus" in FishBase. August 2009 version. Salvanes, A.G.V.; Kristoffersen...
within Cartesian co-ordinates, a certain little oceanic fish known as Argyropelecus olfersi. Fig. 374 represents precisely the same outline, transferred...
name English name Habitat Occurrence Red List status Sternoptychidae Argyropelecus olfersii N/A Marine Sporadic Not Evaluated Sternoptychidae Maurolicus...
coasts after adverse weather conditions. Examples are Chauliodus sloani, Argyropelecus hemigymnus and Myctophum punctatum. The Strait of Messina is an important...
Silver hatchetfish may refer to: Marine hatchetfishes of the genus Argyropelecus The freshwater hatchetfish species Gasteropelecus levis This disambiguation...
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