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Image:Polymixia nobilis.jpg Stout beardfish, Polymixia nobilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Polymixiiformes Family: Polymixiidae
Genera
Polymixia Lowe, 1838 Berycopsis (extinct) Dalmatichthys (extinct) Omosoma (extinct) Omosomopsis (extinct)

The beardfishes are a small family (Polymixiidae) of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels.

They are found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian and western Pacific Ocean.

[edit] Classification

Ten species of the single extant genus Polymixia are known,<ref>"Polymixiidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.</ref> along with several fossil genera.

At present they are classified in their own order Polymixiiformes,<ref>"Polymixiiformes". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.</ref> but as Nelson says, "few groups have been shifted back and forth as frequently as this one".<ref>Joseph S. Nelson. Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-54713-1.</ref> Previous groupings include Beryciformes.

• Beardfish, Polymixia lowei Günther, 1859.
• Pacific beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert, 1905.
• Polymixia salagomeziensis Kotlyar, 1991.
• Polymixia fusca Kotthaus, 1970.
• Polymixia yuri Kotlyar, 1982.
• Polymixia longispina Deng, Xiong & Zhan, 1983.
• Stout beardfish, Polymixia nobilis Lowe, 1838.
• Polymixia busakhini Kotlyar, 1993.
• Polymixia sazonovi Kotlyar, 1992.
• Silver eye, Polymixia japonica Günther, 1877.

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