Bathyclupeidae is a family of Perciformes, called deep sea herrings.[3] They are marine fishes found in tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. They grow up to about 20 cm long.
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| Neobathyclupea argentea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Bathyclupeidae T. N. Gill, 1896[2] |
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Genera edit
The following two genera, containing 10 species, are classified within the family Bathyclupeidae,[4] although Fishbase only recognises Bathyclupeus:[5]
- Bathyclupea Alcock, 1891
- Bathyclupea hoskynii Alcock 1891
- Bathyclupea nikparini Prokofiev2014
- Bathyclupea schroederi Dick, 1962
- Neobathyclupea Prokofiev, 2014 [3]
- Neobathyclupea argentea (Goode & Bean, 1896)
- Neobathyclupea elongate (Trunov, 1975)
- Neobathyclupea gracilis (Fowler, 1938)
- Neobathyclupea japanotaiwana (Prokofiev, 2014)
- Neobathyclupea malayana (Weber, 1913)
- Neobathyclupea megaceps (Fowler 1938)
- Neobathyclupea melanoptera Prokofiev, Gon & Psomadakis, 2016[6]
References edit
- ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002). "A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23.
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- ^ a b Prokofiev, A.M. (2014). "Taxonomy and Distribution of Deepsea Herring (Bathyclupeidae) in Oceans". Journal of Ichthyology. 54 (8): 493–500. doi:10.1134/S0032945214050063.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bathyclupeidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Bathycluepidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Artem M. Prokofiev; Ofer Gon & Peter N. Psomadakis (2016). "A new species of Neobathyclupea from the northern Indian Ocean with comments on N. malayana (Teleostei, Perciformes, Bathyclupeidae)". Zootaxa. 5208 (5). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.5. Abstract
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