Zeniontidae is a
family of large, showy, deep-bodied
zeiform marine
fish. Found in the
Atlantic,
Indian, and
Pacific Ocean, the family contains just seven
species in three
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
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The family was formerly known as Macrurocyttidae.
References
Ray-finned fish families
Zeiformes
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