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Ateleopodidae (Jellynose Fishes)
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About This Family
Distribution:
Caribbean Sea, eastern Atlantic, Indo-Pacific, and eastern Pacific, off Panama and Costa Rica.
Habitat:
Marine
Remarks:
The Ateleopids are widely distributed in all tropical and warm-temperate oceans, although most are rarely sighted. These deep-water fishes have an elongate body, bulbous snout, dorsal fin with 3-13 rays, and branchiostegal with 7 rays. Their skeleton is primarily cartilaginous. They can grow to a maximum reported length of 2 m.
This family consists of four genera, Ateleopus, Ijimaia, Parateleopus, and Guentherus, with about 12 species.
References: Nelson 2006