Myctophiformes
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The Myctophiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes consisting of two families of deep-sea marine fish, most notably the highly abundant lanternfishes. The blackchins contain six species in three gen
Messina Straits Myctophum punctatum
Neoteleostei
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The Neoteleostei is a large clade of bony fish mostly consisting of marine clades. Only three lineages have freshwater species: Percopsiformes, which lives exclusively in freshwater, Gadiformes, which
Myctophiformes
…pharyngobranchials and retractor muscles are more plesiomorphic. It was also allied with the more advanced spiny-rayed Teleostei (e.g. Paracanthopterygii) as "Ctenosquamata". These apomorphically have a fifth upper pharyngeal toothplate and a third internal levator muscle to move it, and molecular data also support the…
Bathysaurus
Antennarius striatus