Pricklefish
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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.
[edit] Species
There are three species in three genera:
- Genus Acanthochaenus
- Acanthochaenus luetkenii Gill, 1884.
- Genus Malacosarcus
- Malacosarcus macrostoma (Günther, 1878).
- Genus Stephanoberyx
- Stephanoberyx monae Gill, 1883.
[edit] References
- "Stephanoberycidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. MarchFebruary 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
