Barracudinas
Paralepididae
Barracudinas are any member of the marine mesopelagic fish family Paralepididae: 50 or so extant species are found almost worldwide in deep waters. Several genera, including Holosteus and Drimys, are known only from fossils dating back to the Ypresian epoch.
The generic name Paralepis (for which the family is named) is from Greek - para meaning "near", lepis meaning "scaled".
12 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 71 known species
Arctozenus
genusArctozenus
Magnisudis
genusMagnisudis
Lestidiops
genusLestidiops
Sudis
genusSudis
Lestidium
genusLestidium
Stemonosudis
genusStemonosudis
Dolichosudis
genusDolichosudis
Lestrolepis
genusLestrolepis
Paralepis
genusParalepis
Macroparalepis
genusMacroparalepis
Uncisudis
genusUncisudis
Notolepis
genusNotolepis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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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 85962.