''Ijimaia'' is a
genus
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of
jellynose fish
The jellynose fishes or tadpole fishes are the small order Ateleopodiformes. This group of ray-finned fish is monotypic, containing a single family Ateleopodidae. It has about a dozen species in four genera, but these enigmatic fishes are in n ...
es, one of four in the order Ateleopodiformes.
Species
The currently recognized
species
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in this genus are:
* ''
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
Ateleopodiformes
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