''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by

August Brauer August Bernhard Brauer (3 April 186310 September 1917) was a German zoologist. Brauer was born in Oldenburg. He studied natural sciences at the Universities of Bonn, Berlin and Freiburg, obtaining his doctorate in 1895 with a thesis on the ciliat ...

. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is extremely enlarged first filament of dorsal fin, called the

illicium ''Illicium'' is a genus of flowering plants treated as part of the family Schisandraceae,

, with bioluminescent

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at its end. (In ''G. longicauda'' the length of the illicium can be up to 3.3 times the standard length of the fish.)

Species

, there are currently 20 recognized extant species in this genus: * ''

Gigantactis balushkini ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Kharin, 1984 * '' Gigantactis elsmani'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 (Elsman's Whipnose) * ''

Gigantactis gargantua ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 (Gigantic Whipnose) * ''

Gigantactis gibbsi ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * ''

Gigantactis golovani ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * ''

Gigantactis gracilicauda ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

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, 1925 * ''

Gigantactis herwigi ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * ''

Gigantactis ios ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * '' Gigantactis kreffti'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * ''

Gigantactis longicauda ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen & Pietsch, 2002 * ''

Gigantactis longicirra ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Waterman, 1939 * ''

Gigantactis macronema ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

, 1925 * '' Gigantactis meadi'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * ''

Gigantactis microdontis ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * '' Gigantactis microphthalmus''

& Trewavas, 1932 * ''

Gigantactis paxtoni ''Gigantactis paxtoni'' (common name: Paxton's whipnose) is a species of fish in the whipnose angler (Gigantactinidae) family, first described in 1981 by Erik Bertelsen, Theodore Wells Pietsch III and Robert J. Lavenberg. The species epithet, ...

'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 (Paxton's whipnose) * ''

Gigantactis perlatus ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' Beebe & Crane, 1947 * '' Gigantactis savagei'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981 * ''

Gigantactis vanhoeffeni ''Gigantactis'' is a genus of deep-sea fish of the family Gigantactinidae, first described in 1902 by August Brauer. The species in this genus are poorly known and found in all oceans, at depths of . The most striking feature of these fish is ex ...

'' A. B. Brauer, 1902 (Cosmopolitan whipnose) * '' Gigantactis watermani'' Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2704001 Deep sea fish Bioluminescent fish Taxa named by August Brauer Marine fish genera Gigantactinidae Taxa described in 1902