''Diretmoides'' is a
genus of
spinyfin
Spinyfins are a family, Diretmidae, of trachichthyform fishes. The family name is derived from the type genus, '' Diretmus'', from Greek, ''di'' meaning "two" and ''eretmos'' meaning "oar". They are found worldwide in deep waters, as deep as .
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s with one species ''(pauciradiatus)'' known from the eastern
Atlantic Ocean and the other ''(veriginae)'' known from the eastern
Indian Ocean.
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Diretmoides pauciradiatus''
( Woods, 1973) (Longwing spinyfin)
* ''
Diretmoides veriginae
''Diretmoides'' is a genus of spinyfins with one species ''(pauciradiatus)'' known from the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the other ''(veriginae)'' known from the eastern Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oc ...
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Kotlyar, 1987
References
Diretmidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Alfred Post (zoologist)
Taxa named by Jean-Claude Quéro
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