Opah
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The opah, also commonly known as moonfish, sunfish, cowfish, kingfish, and redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the genus Lampris, of the small family
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Ventral view of an opah
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Lampris guttatus
Lampriformes
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Lampriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes. Members are commonly known as lampriforms, and include such open-ocean and partially deep-sea Teleostei as the opahs, sailfin velifer, crestfishes, ribbo
Opah
…moonfish, sunfish (not to be confused with Molidae or ocean sunfish), cowfish, kingfish, and redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the genus Lampris, of the small family Lampridae (also spelled Lamprididae). Two living species were traditionally recognized, but a…
Lampris guttatus on Faroese stamp FO 546 by Astrid Andreasen
Reconstruction of Analectis pala, the youngest-known member of the extinct bathysome Turkmenidae, which dates from the Late Oligocene
Giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne (Regalecidae), caught in 1996 off Coronado, California
Scalloped ribbonfish, Zu cristatus (Trachipteridae)