The bellowfishes or bellowsfishes are fishes in the genus ''Notopogon'' in the family

Centriscidae The Centriscidae are a family of fishes from the order Syngnathiformes which includes the snipefishes, shrimpfishes, and bellowfishes. A small family, consisting of only about a dozen marine species, they are of an unusual appearance, as reflecte ...

. They are found in deeper parts of the temperate southern oceans, although the longspine bellowfish has been recorded as far north as

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and

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. According to

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, they are part of the family

, but some authorities split that family, in which case the genus ''Notopogon'' is in the family

Macroramphosidae Macroramphosidae, the snipefishes and bellowsfishes is a family of oviparous, marine fish which form part of the superfamily Centriscoidea, which is one of the two superfamilies in the suborder Aulostomoidei of the order Syngnathiformes, which in ...

, which is followed here. They have long second spines on their

dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom. Many species of animals possessing dorsal fins are not particularly closely related to each other, though through conv ...

s and tiny mouths at the tip of their greatly elongated snouts. Their bodies are relatively high (giving them a somewhat

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ed appearance), unlike the related

snipefish ''Macroramphosus'', snipefishes or bellowfishes, is a genus of fishes found in tropical and subtropical oceans at depths down to . According to FishBase, they are part of the family Centriscidae, but Nelson (2016) split that family, in which case ...

es. They reach a maximum length of about , and are silvery or reddish in colour.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: * ''

Notopogon armatus ''Notopogon armatus'' is a species of fish in the family Centriscidae. This species is endemic to the central Indian Ocean, near the Ile Amsterdam and Ile St. Paul. It has been found at depths of . It can grow to lengths of . References Furth ...

'' ( Sauvage, 1879) * ''

Notopogon fernandezianus The orange bellowsfish (''Notopogon fernandezianus'') is a species of fish of the family Macroramphosidae, found around South America, at depths of . Its length is up to . The orange bellowsfish is a bathydemersal species which occurs over the ...

'' ( Delfín, 1899) (orange bellowsfish) * '' Notopogon lilliei''

Regan The family name Regan, along with its cognates O'Regan, O Regan, Reagan, and O'Reagan, is an Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin or Ó Ríogáin, from Ua Riagáin. The meaning is likely to have originated in ancient Gaelic ''ri'' ...

, 1914 (crested bellowsfish) * '' Notopogon macrosolen''

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, 1925 (longsnout bellowsfish) * '' Notopogon xenosoma''

, 1914 (longspine bellowsfish)

References

Marine fish genera Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan {{Syngnathiformes-stub