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Slickheads and tubeshoulders
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Slickheads and tubeshoulders

Alepocephaliformes

Alepocephaliformes is an order of marine deep-sea teleost fishes. It was previously classified as the suborder Alepocephaloidei of the order Argentiniformes.

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2 branches of this order, most-observed first · about 143 known species

Slickheads

familyAlepocephalidae

Tubeshoulders

familyPlatytroctidae

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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 1303733.