Deepwater Cardinalfishes
Epigonidae
Epigonidae, the deepwater cardinalfishes, are a family of acropomatiform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 43 species. Despite their name, they are not closely related to the true cardinalfishes of the family Apogonidae.
They are small fishes: the largest, Epigonus telescopus, reaches 75 cm (30 in) in length, and most grow to no more than 20 cm (7.9 in) or so.
6 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 50 known species
Epigonus
genusEpigonus
Brephostoma
genusBrephostoma
Florenciella
genusFlorenciella
Microichthys
genusMicroichthys
Sphyraenops
genusSphyraenops
Rosenblattia
genusRosenblattia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85761.