Searsid is a term used to refer to
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
of the family
Platytroctidae
The tubeshoulders are a family, Platytroctidae, of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Alepocephaliformes
Alepocephaliformes is an order of ray-finned fish. It was previously classified as the suborder Alepocephaloidei of the order Argenti ...
that resemble ''
Searsia koefoedi
''Searsia koefoedi'', or Koefoed's searsid, is a species of tubeshoulder found in the oceans at depths of from . It is named after Norwegian marine biologist Einar Koefoed
Einar Laurentius Koefoed (1875–1963) was a Danish-born marine biolog ...
''. Fish referred to as searsids include:
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bigeye searsid (''Holtbyrnia macrops'')
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bighead searsid (''Holtbyrnia anomala'')
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Koefoed's searsid (''Searsia koefoedi'')
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legless searsid (''Platytroctes apus'')
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Maul's searsid (''Maulisia mauli'')
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multipore searsid (''Normichthys operosus'')
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palebelly searsid (''Barbantus curvifrons'')
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palegold searsid (''Maulisia argipalla'')
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Schnakenbeck's searsid (''Sagamichthys schnakenbecki'')
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smallscale searsid (''Maulisia microlepis'')
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