For the United States Navy submarine, see USS Lancetfish (SS-296).
Lancetfishes
Temporal range: Middle Miocene-Recent[1]
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Longnose lancetfish, Alepisaurus ferox
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Aulopiformes
Family:
Alepisauridae Swainson, 1839
Genus:
Alepisaurus R. T. Lowe, 1833
Lancetfishes are large oceanic predatory fishes in the genus Alepisaurus ("scaleless lizard") in the monogeneric family Alepisauridae.[2]
Lancetfishes grow up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in length. Very little is known about their biology, though they are widely distributed in all oceans, except the polar seas.[3] Specimens have been recorded as far north as Greenland.[4] They are often caught as bycatch by vessels long-lining for tuna.
The generic name is from Greek a- meaning "without", lepis meaning "scale", and sauros meaning "lizard".
^Sepkoski, J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
^Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Alepisauridae" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
^Kubota, T.; Uyeno, T. (1978). "On some meristic characters of lancetfish, Alepisaurus, collected from Suruga Bay, Japan". Journal of Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University. 11: 63–69.
^Jensen, A. S. (1948). Contributions to the Ichthyofauna of Greenland. Skrifter Univ. Zool. Mus. Københaven. Vol. 9. pp. 1–182. OCLC 83357750.
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