''Hyperoglyphe'' is a
genus
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 n ...
of
medusafishes native to the
Atlantic
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and
Pacific
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
oceans.
Species
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Hyperoglyphe antarctica''
( Carmichael, 1819) (Bluenose warehou)
* ''
Hyperoglyphe bythites''
( Ginsburg, 1954) (Black driftfish)
* ''
Hyperoglyphe japonica''
( Döderlein ( de), 1884) (Pacific barrelfish)
* ''
Hyperoglyphe macrophthalma''
( A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915)
* ''
Hyperoglyphe perciformis
''Hyperoglyphe perciformis'', the barrelfish is a primarily Pelagic_fish#Bathypelagic_fish, bathypelagic species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Centrolophidae. The barrelfish is found in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Despite being in t ...
''
( Mitchill, 1818) (Barrelfish)
* ''
Hyperoglyphe pringlei''
( J. L. B. Smith, 1949) (Black butterfish)
References
Centrolophidae
Perciformes genera
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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