Microstomatidae
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Microstomatidae is a family of osmeriform fishes.
They are native to the Atlantic, Indian
and Pacific Ocean
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They are native to the Atlantic, Indian
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...
and Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
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Species
There are twenty species in three genera:- Genus Microstoma
- Slender argentineSlender argentineThe slender argentine, Microstoma microstoma, is a species of smelt, the only member of the genus Microstoma, found around the world in tropical and subtropical areas...
, Microstoma microstoma (RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
, 1810).
- Slender argentine
- Genus Nansenia
- Nansenia ahlstromi Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia antarctica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia ardesiaca JordanDavid Starr JordanDavid Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. was a leading eugenicist, ichthyologist, educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University.-Early life and education:...
& Thompson, 1914. - Nansenia atlantica Blache & Rossignol, 1962.
- Bluethroat argentine, Nansenia candida Cohen, 1958.
- Stout argentine, Nansenia crassa Lavenberg, 1965.
- Greenland argentine, Nansenia groenlandica (Reinhardt, 1840).
- Nansenia iberica Matallanas, 1985.
- Nansenia indica Kobyliansky, 1992.
- Nansenia longicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1922).
- Nansenia megalopa Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia oblita (Sarato, 1888).
- Nansenia obscura Kobyliansky & Usachev, 1992.
- Nansenia pelagica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia sanrikuensis Kanayama & Amaoka, 1983.
- Nansenia tenera Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia tenuicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Genus Xenophthalmichthys
- Xenophthalmichthys danae Regan, 1925.