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  7. ›Alepisaurus
Shortnose Lancetfish
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Shortnose Lancetfish

Alepisaurus brevirostris

Lancetfishes are large oceanic predatory fishes in the genus Alepisaurus ("scaleless lizard"), the only living genus in the family Alepisauridae.

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