Ijimaia
Appearance
Ijimaia | |
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Deep-water ateleopid fish (I. plicatellus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Ateleopodiformes |
Family: | Ateleopodidae |
Genus: | Ijimaia Sauter, 1905 |
Ijimaia is a genus of jellynose fishes, one of four in the order Ateleopodiformes.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Ijimaia antillarum Howell-Rivero, 1935
- Ijimaia dofleini Sauter, 1905
- Ijimaia fowleri Howell-Rivero, 1935
- Ijimaia loppei Roule, 1922 (Loppe's tadpole fish)
- Ijimaia plicatellus (C. H. Gilbert, 1905) (deepwater ateleopodid)
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Ijimaia". FishBase. February 2012 version.