Gempylidae

Snake mackerels

26 species

1. 1Diplospinus multistriatus Maul, 1948 · Striped escolarocean · deep-water
2. 2Epinnula magistralis Poey, 1854 · Domineocean · tropical
3. 3Epinnula rex Ho, Motomura, Hata & Jiang, 2017 · Pacific Domineocean · tropical
4. 4Gempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829 · Snake mackerelocean · deep-water
5. 5Lepidocybium flavobrunneum (Smith, 1843) · Escolarocean · deep-water
6. 6Nealotus tripes Johnson, 1865 · Black snake mackerelocean · deep-water
7. 7Neoepinnula americana (Grey, 1953) · American sackfishocean · deep-water
8. 8Neoepinnula minetomai Nakayama, Kimura & Endo, 2014 · Large-eyed sackfishocean · deep-water
9. 9Neoepinnula orientalis (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) · Sackfishocean · deep-water
10. 10Nesiarchus nasutus Johnson, 1862 · Black gemfishocean · deep-water
11. 11Paradiplospinus antarcticus Andriashev, 1960 · Antarctic escolarocean · deep-water
12. 12Paradiplospinus gracilis (Brauer, 1906) · Slender escolarocean · deep-water
13. 13Promethichthys prometheus (Cuvier, 1832) · Roudi escolarocean · subtropical
14. 14Rexea alisae Roberts & Stewart, 1997ocean · deep-water
15. 15Rexea antefurcata Parin, 1989 · Long-finned escolarocean · deep-water
16. 16Rexea bengalensis (Alcock, 1894) · Bengal escolarbrackish · ocean · deep-water
17. 17Rexea brevilineata Parin, 1989 · Short-lined escolarocean · deep-water
18. 18Rexea nakamurai Parin, 1989 · Nakamura's escolarocean · deep-water
19. 19Rexea prometheoides (Bleeker, 1856) · Royal escolarocean · tropical
20. 20Rexea solandri (Cuvier, 1832) · Silver gemfishocean · deep-water
21. 21Rexichthys johnpaxtoni Parin & Astakhov, 1987 · Paxton's escolarocean · deep-water
22. 22Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 · Oilfishocean · subtropical
23. 23Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) · Snoekbrackish · ocean · subtropical
24. 24Thyrsitoides marleyi Fowler, 1929 · Black snoekocean · deep-water
25. 25Thyrsitops lepidopoides (Cuvier, 1832) · White snake mackerelocean · subtropical
26. 26Tongaichthys robustus Nakamura & Fujii, 1983 · Tonga escolarocean · deep-water

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.