Fish Guide

Beardfishes
Stout beardfish, Polymixia nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Actinopterygii   Order: Polymixiiformes   Family: Polymixiidae
Genera
Polymixia Lowe, 1838 Berycopsis (extinct) Dalmatichthys (extinct) Omosoma (extinct) Omosomopsis (extinct)

The beardfishes are a small family (Polymixiidae) of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels.

They are found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific Ocean.

Classification

Ten species of the single extant genus Polymixia are known,^[1] along with several fossil genera.

At present they are classified in their own order Polymixiiformes,^[2] but as Nelson says, "few groups have been shifted back and forth as frequently as this one".^[3] Previous groupings include Beryciformes.

• Beardfish, Polymixia lowei Günther, 1859.
  Pacific beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert, 1905.
  Polymixia salagomeziensis Kotlyar, 1991.
  Polymixia fusca Kotthaus, 1970.
  Polymixia yuri Kotlyar, 1982.
  Polymixia longispina Deng, Xiong & Zhan, 1983.
  Stout beardfish, Polymixia nobilis Lowe, 1838.
  Polymixia busakhini Kotlyar, 1993.
  Polymixia sazonovi Kotlyar, 1992.
  Silver eye, Polymixia japonica Günther, 1877.

References

1. ^ "Polymixiidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
2. ^ "Polymixiiformes". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
3. ^ Joseph S. Nelson. Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-54713-1.