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Deep-sea Spiny Eels
Notacanthidae
The deep-sea spiny eels are a family, Notacanthidae, of fishes found worldwide below 125 m (410 ft), and as deep as 3,500 m (11,500 ft). The earliest known spiny eel is Pronotacanthus sahelalmae, from the Santonian of what is now Lebanon.
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 13 known species
Notacanthus
genusNotacanthus
Polyacanthonotus
genusPolyacanthonotus
Lipogenys
genusLipogenys
Tilurus
genusTilurus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 85930.