Order ATELEOPODIFORMES


Common name: Jellynose fishes, tadpole fishes
Summary:

Jellynose fishes have large bulbous heads with inflated jelly-like snouts and long tapering tails. The skeleton is poorly ossified and the flesh is very watery. Although these bathypelagic fishes are found in all oceans in depths between 400-700 m, little is known of their biology. The largest species grows to about 2.2 metres in length.

The Ateleopodiformes contains a single family, the Ateleopodidae, with four genera and eleven described species. The group is in need of revision.

Author: Dianne J. Bray

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Dianne J. Bray, Jellynose fishes, ATELEOPODIFORMES in Fishes of Australia, accessed 28 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/order/4

Order References


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Moore, J.A. 1999. Family Ateleopodidae. In Carpenter and Niem (Eds.) Species identification guide for fisheries purposes. The living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Batoid fishes, chimeras and bony fishes part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). FAO, Rome.

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Olney, J.E. 1998. Ateleopodiformes, p. 158. In Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Fishes. Academic Press, San Diego.

Olney, J.E., Johnson, G.D. & Baldwin, C.C. 1993. Phylogeny of lampridiform fishes. Bulletin of Marine Science 52: 137-169.