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Lancetfishes
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Lancetfishes

Alepisauridae

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

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1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 2 known species

Alepisaurus

genusAlepisaurus

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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 85566.