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Barbeled Plunderfishes
Artedidraconinae
The Artedidraconidae, barbeled plunderfishes, are a family of marine perciform fishes comprising four genera. Artedidraconidae are endemic to deep waters off Antarctica. The operculum carries a hook-shaped spine and four or five hypurals are present. Artedidraconidae have 33 to 41 vertebrae. The name Artedidraconidae is derived from a combination of Artedi (from Peter Artedi, the "father of ichthyology") and the Greek drakōn (δράκων, dragon). A mental barbel is a characteristic of this family; the morphology of...
5 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 35 known species
Pogonophryne
genusPogonophryne
Histiodraco
genusHistiodraco
Dolloidraco
genusDolloidraco
Neodraco
genusNeodraco
Artedidraco
genusArtedidraco
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 85604.