Cetomimidae

Also known as: Bignose Fishes, Flabby Whalefishes, Flabby whalefishes, Hairyfishes, Tapetails, Wielorybinkowate, děrovkovití, flabby whalefishes

Classification

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Order	Cetomimiformes
Family	Cetomimidae
Published in	Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. (1895). On Cetomimidae and Rondeletiidae, two new families of bathybial fishes from the northwestern Atlantic. <em>In: Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. Proceedings of the United S
Habitat	MARINE
Genera	16
Species records held	30
Descendant taxa (GBIF)	57
GBIF key	7196

Genera in Cetomimidae

Cetomimus — 7 species: Cetomimus compunctus, Cetomimus craneae, Cetomimus gillii, Cetomimus hempeli, Cetomimus kerdops, Cetomimus picklei, Cetomimus teevani
Gyrinomimus — 5 species: Gyrinomimus andriashevi, Gyrinomimus bruuni, Gyrinomimus grahami, Gyrinomimus myersi, Gyrinomimus parri
Parataeniophorus — 3 species: Parataeniophorus bertelseni, Parataeniophorus brevis, Parataeniophorus gulosus
Ataxolepis — 2 species: Ataxolepis apus, Ataxolepis henactis
Cetichthys — 2 species: Cetichthys indagator, Cetichthys parini
Cetomimoides — 1 species: Cetomimoides parri
Cetostoma — 1 species: Cetostoma regani
Danacetichthys — 1 species: Danacetichthys galathenus
Ditropichthys — 1 species: Ditropichthys storeri
Eutaeniophorus — 1 species: Eutaeniophorus festivus
Megalomycter — 1 species: Megalomycter teevani
Mirapinna — 1 species: Mirapinna esau
Notocetichthys — 1 species: Notocetichthys trunovi
Procetichthys — 1 species: Procetichthys kreffti
Rhamphocetichthys — 1 species: Rhamphocetichthys savagei
Vitiaziella — 1 species: Vitiaziella cubiceps

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Source and Attribution

Taxonomic rank data on this page is drawn from the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, doi.org/10.15468/39omei, GBIF Secretariat, licensed CC BY 4.0. Member-species counts are counts of records held in the Sanctum species index, not a claim of completeness for the family.

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