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8 families · 29 genera · 124 species/subspecies
Family GIBBERICHTHYIDAE Gibberfishes
Gibberichthys Parr 1933 gibber, humped, crooked or protuberant, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to “spiniferous crests” on head of G. pumilus; ichthys, fish
Gibberichthys latifrons (Thorp 1969) latus, wide; frons, forehead, referring to wider “fleshy interorbital distance” compared to Kasidoron edom, now known to be a prejuvenile stage (and junior synonym) of G. pumilus
Gibberichthys pumilus Parr 1933 dwarfish, described at 31.5 mm SL
Family STEPHANOBERYCIDAE Pricklefishes
4 genera · 4 species
Abyssoberyx Merrett & Moore 2005 abyssos, deep water, referring to the “great depth” from which it had been trawled (4480-4565 m); beryx, a beryciform fish
Abyssoberyx levisquamosus Merrett & Moore 2005 laevis, smooth; squamosus, scaled, referring to its smooth cycloid scales, unlike the spinoid scales of Acanthochaenus, Stephanoberyx and Hispidoberyx (the third genus now placed in its own family, below)
Acanthochaenus Gill 1884 acanthus, spine or thorn; chaenus, gape, presumably referring to “scales with spinous surfaces” and a “cavernous head”
Acanthochaenus luetkenii Gill 1884 patronym not identified, probably in honor of Danish zoologist Christian Frederik Lütken (1827-1901)
Malacosarcus Günther 1887 malacos, soft, probably referring to “very thin” head bones; arcus, bowed, probably referring to arched dorsal profile, high near the head and “rapidly” lowering towards the tail
Malacosarcus macrostoma (Günther 1878) macro-, large; stoma, mouth, referring to “very wide” cleft of mouth
Stephanoberyx Gill 1883 stephanus, crowned, presumably referring to an “inner U-shaped” osseus ridge on crown of head; beryx, a beryciform fish
Stephanoberyx monae Gill 1883 matronym not identified; according to Jordan & Evermann (1896), in honor of Gill’s niece, Mona
Family HISPIDOBERYCIDAE
Hispidoberyx Kotlyar 1981 hispidus, bristly or rough, referring to vertically protruding spines covering entire body, crest of cephalic bones, and fin rays; beryx, a beryciform fish
Hispidoberyx ambagiosus Kotlyar 1981 enigmatic or ambiguous, referring to its uncertain position within the order
Family RONDELETIIDAE Redmouth Whalefishes
Rondeletia Goode & Bean 1895 –ia, belonging to: Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), “the French ichthyologist of the seventeenth [sic] century”
Rondeletia bicolor Goode & Bean 1895 two-colored, “purplish-black, with cherry-colored margins to the fins; whitish in spirits” (apparently the orange to reddish-brown color inside mouth and gill cavities, hence the “redmouth” vernacular, was not known at the time)
Rondeletia loricata Abe & Hotta 1963 armored, referring to “remarkably expanded and swollen” bones of pectoral girdle
Family BARBOURISIIDAE Red or Velvet Whalefish
Barbourisia Parr 1945 –ia, belonging to: herpetologist and “distinguished naturalist” Thomas Barbour (1884-1946), Director of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
Barbourisia rufa Parr 1945 red or reddish, referring to its “bright geranium red” color in life
Family CETOMIMIDAE Flabby Whalefishes
14 genera · 27 species
Ataxolepis Myers & Freihofer 1966 a-, without; taxis, order; lepis, scale, referring to “irregularly arranged, irregularly shaped scales of different sizes covering the body and base of caudal fin in a mosaic-like pattern”
Ataxolepis apus Myers & Freihofer 1966 a-, without; pous, foot, referring to absence of pelvic fins
Ataxolepis henactis Goodyear 1970 henos, one; actis, ray, referring to single pelvic-fin ray (compared to A. apus, which lacks pelvic fins)
Cetichthys Paxton 1989 cetus, whale; ichthys, fish, referring to whale-like body shape and mouth size, and a Greek transliteration of the common name “whalefish”
Cetichthys indagator (Rofen 1959) Latin for explorer, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to the Galathea Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World (1950-1952), during which type was collected [author previously known as Harry]
Cetichthys parini Paxton 1989 in honor of Nikolai Vasil’evich Parin (1932-2012), Russian Academy of Sciences, who provided Paxton a collection of cetomimids for study, and for his contributions to pelagic and deep-sea ichthyology
Cetomimus Goode & Bean 1895 cetos, whale; mimus, to mimic, “similar in its vertical outline and proportions to that of the right whales (Balænidae), a resemblance which is greatly enhanced by the shape of the enormous mouth, and in the lower jaw strongly curved, projecting slightly beyond the snout”
Cetomimus compunctus Abe, Marumo & Kawaguchi 1965 pricked or pierced, presumably referring to how lateral line is “pierced by fairly large pores”
Cetomimus craneae Harry 1952 in honor of carcinologist Jocelyn Crane (1909-1998), New York Zoological Society, for her work on deep-sea fishes [author later known as Rofen]
Cetomimus gillii Goode & Bean 1895 patronym not identified but almost certainly in honor of Smithsonian zoologist Theodore Gill (1837-1914)
Cetomimus hempeli Maul 1969 in honor of marine biologist and oceanographer Gotthilf Hempel (b. 1929), leader of leg 6 of voyage 9c of the Meteor Seamount-Cruises, during which type was collected
Cetomimus kerdops Parr 1934 kerdos, the wily one, or fox; ops, eye, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to its minute eyes
Cetomimus paxtoni Kobyliansky, Gordeeva & Mishin 2023 in honor of John R. Paxton (b. 1938), Australian Museum (Sydney), a “remarkable” ichthyologist, for his “outstanding” contribution to the study of fishes of the family Cetomimidae
Cetomimus picklei (Gilchrist 1922) in honor of the South African marine survey ship Pickle, from which type was collected
Cetomimus teevani Harry 1952 in honor of John Tee Van(1897-1967), Director of both the Bronx Zoo and the Coney Island Aquarium in New York City, for his “important part” in the Bermuda Oceanographic Expeditions, during which type was collected; he also made the expeditions’ collections available to Harry and provided “enthusiastic cooperation” in the preparation of his report [author later known as Rofen]
Cetostoma Zugmayer 1914 cetos, whale; stoma, mouth, presumably referring to large, whale-like mouth
Cetostoma regani Zugmayer 1914 in honor of ichthyologist Charles Tate Regan (1878-1943), Natural History Museum (London)
Danacetichthys Paxton 1989 Dana, in honor of the Danish fishery research vessel Dana, referring to the “fine early collection” of 33 whalefishes from the Dana Expeditions now at the University of Copenhagen; cetus, whale and ichthys, a Greek transliteration of the common name “whalefish”
Danacetichthys galathenus Paxton 1989 Greek for young, referring to the apparently immature state of all type specimens
Ditropichthys Parr 1934 di-, two and tropis, keel, referring to pair of thin folds along entire ventral edge of abdomen and/or folds over anal fin; ichthys, fish
Ditropichthys storeri (Goode & Bean 1895) in honor of physician-naturalist David Humphreys Storer (1804-1891), in appreciation of the “distinguished services of this pioneer in American ichthyology, who began systematic work upon the fauna of the western Atlantic more than half a century ago”
Eutaeniophorus Bertelsen & Marshall 1958 eu-, very; taenia, ribbon; phorus, bearer, referring to several median caudal-fin rays prolonged into a ribbon-like streamer in at least larval and adolescent stages [replacement name for Taeniophorus Bertelsen & Marshall 1956, preoccupied by Taeniophorus Linnavuori 1952 in insects]
Eutaeniophorus festivus (Bertelsen & Marshall 1956) pleasing or handsome, or joyous or merry, allusion not explained nor evident
Gyrinomimus Parr 1934 gyrinos, tadpole; mimus, imitator or mimic, referring to its broad, depressed, tadpole-like head
Gyrinomimus andriashevi Fedorov, Balushkin & Trunov 1987 in honor of Soviet ichthyologist Anatoly Petrovich Andriashev (1910-2009), a “distinguished authority” (translation) on fishes of the Antarctic (where this species occurs)
Gyrinomimus bruuni Rofen 1959 in honor of Danish oceanographer and ichthyologist Anton Frederick Bruun (1901-1961), leader of the Galathea Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World (1950-1952), during which type was collected, and “foremost investigator” of deep-sea marine life [author previously known as Harry]
Gyrinomimus grahami Richardson & Garrick 1964 in honor of David H. Graham, “veteran” New Zealand ichthyologist and marine biologist
Gyrinomimus myersi Parr 1934 in honor of Stanford University ichthyologist George S. Myers (1905-1985), then at the U.S. National Museum, who furnished Parr with measurements of the type of Cetomimus gillii
Gyrinomimus parri Bigelow 1961 in honor of marine biologist Albert Eide Parr (1900-1991), who proposed the genus in 1934
Megalomycter Myers & Freihofer 1966 megas, large or great; mykter, nose, referring to “great olfactory rosettes,” which cause the snout to appear “unusually swollen”
Megalomycter teevani Myers & Freihofer 1966 in honor of John Tee Van (1897-1967), Director of both the Bronx Zoo and the Coney Island Aquarium in New York City, for his work as the assistant to deep-sea explorer William Beebe (who collected type) and for “his many years of friendly help to ichthyology and ichthyologists”
Mirapinna Bertelsen & Marshall 1956 mirus, wonderful or strange; pinna, fin, presumably referring to large and fan-shaped pelvic fins, each one with a “well developed muscular base forming a well-knit ventral unit with its partner, the pelvic bones fusing or being coupled by connective tissue but having no linkage with pectoral girdle”
Mirapinna esau Bertelsen & Marshall 1956 etymology not explained, presumably named for Esau, mentioned in the Book of Genesis and noted for his hairiness (his name is derived from the Arabic isaw, meaning rough or hairy), referring to “dense pile of hair-like outgrowths” covering nearly entire body [postlarva of Procetichthys kreffti 1989, which was thought to represent a separate species until 2009]
Notocetichthys Balushkin, Fedorov & Paxton 1989 noto, southern, referring to Antarctic occurrence of type specimens; cetus, whale and ichthys, a Greek transliteration of the common name “whalefish”, i.e., a southern whalefish
Notocetichthys trunovi Balushkin, Fedorov & Paxton 1989 in honor of ichthyologist Ivan Andreevich Trunov (1936-2005), Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, who collected the two type specimens
Parataeniophorus Bertelsen & Marshall 1956 para-, near, referring to its similarity to and/or close relationship with Taeniophorus (=Eutaeniophorus)
Parataeniophorus brevis Bertelsen & Marshall 1956 brevis, presumably referring to its shorter body length compared to P. gulosus, now recognized as a larval form of Cetostoma regani
Rhamphocetichthys Paxton 1989 rhamphos, curved beak, referring to its beak-like snout; cetus, whale and ichthys, a Greek transliteration of the common name “whalefish”
Rhamphocetichthys savagei Paxton 1989 in honor of herpetologist Jay M. Savage (b. 1928), University of Southern California, who gave Paxton “opportunity and encouragement as a student” and developed the midwater trawling program which collected two paratypes, for his contributions in biology
Vitiaziella Rass 1955 –iella, diminutive connoting endearment: Russian research vessel Vitiaz (also spelled Vityaz), from which type was collected
Vitiaziella cubiceps Rass 1955 cubus, cube; ceps, head, referring to its blunt, cube-shaped head
Family MELAMPHAIDAE Bigscales
5 genera · 77 species/subspecies
Melamphaes Günther 1864 mela-, black; amphaes, from amphi-, around, presumably referring to “entirely black” color of M. typhlops
Melamphaes acanthomus Ebeling 1962 acanthus, spine; omos, shoulder, referring to its antrorse post-temporal spines
Melamphaes brachysomus Kimura, Kawai & Aungtonya 2019 brachy, short; soma, body, referring to its relatively short and stout body
Melamphaes contradictorius Kotlyar 2015 contradictory, presumably referring to how its characters “contradict” those of closely related species of the M. longivelis complex
Melamphaes danae Ebeling 1962 in honor of the Danish fishery research vessel Dana, from which type was collected, “in honor of her scientific party and crew, who, by compiling and interpreting vast quantities of facts concerning the biology, physics, and chemistry of the oceans, have contributed much more than their share to the establishment of the science of biological oceanography”
Melamphaes ebelingi Keene 1973 in honor of Alfred W. Ebeling (1931-2022), University of California (Santa Barbara), for his “outstanding” contributions to the knowledge of the family Melamphaidae and to the ecology of deep-sea fishes
Melamphaes eulepis Ebeling 1962 eu-, well or very; lepis, scale, referring to its “intact squamation” (scales usually missing on congeners) and its “palate-like, sculptured” opercular scales
Melamphaes eurous Kotlyar 2016 eastern, referring to its distribution in the eastern Pacific Ocean
Melamphaes falsidicus Kotlyar 2011 falsifying, referring to previous mistakes made in its identification, which led to its being classified as M. microps
Melamphaes hubbsi Ebeling 1962 in honor of ichthyologist Carl L. Hubbs (1894-1979), for his broad interests in oceanography and the systematics of pelagic fishes (Hubbs also served as chair of Ebeling’s doctoral committee, suggested this line of research, advised on and corrected the manuscript, and gathered data on type specimens from Europe)
Melamphaes inconspicuus Kotlyar 2015 imperceptible or inconspicuous, referring to how previous specimens of this species were probably attributed to M. longivelis by mistake
Melamphaes indicus Ebeling 1962 Indian, referring to its distribution mainly in the Indo-Pacific (Madagascar east to Hawaiian Islands and Central America)
Melamphaes janae Ebeling 1962 in honor of Ebeling’s wife, Jan, who sorted the first specimens of this species from collections made during the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Eastropic Expedition
Melamphaes kobylyanskyi Kotlyar 2015 in honor of friend and colleague Stanislav Genrikhovich Kobylyansky, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, a “famous” (translation) researcher of mesopelagic animals who provided Kotlyar with melamphaid fishes collected on cruise 29 of the Akademik Ioffee research vessel
Melamphaes laeviceps Ebeling 1962 laevis, smooth; ceps, head, referring to the “trim contours” of its “smoothly sculptured” head
Melamphaes lentiginosus Kotlyar 2015 freckled, referring to black dotted spots of pigment on head, body and fins of young and semi-adult specimens
Melamphaes leprus Ebeling 1962 rough, referring to its relatively coarse-ridged spines
Melamphaes longivelis Parr 1933 longus, long; velum, sail, proposed as a subspecies of M. microps with a “slightly higher dorsal fin count”
Melamphaes lugubris Gilbert 1890 mournful or dark, presumably referring to uniform brownish-black body with dusky fins
Melamphaes macrocephalus Parr 1931 macro-, large; cephalus, head, referring to its “very large” head, 2-2⅔ times in SL
Melamphaes manifestus Kotlyar 2011 Latin for remarkable, obvious or easily defined, allusion not explained (nor obvious), possibly referring to its bigger head and larger eyes compared to M. microps
Melamphaes microps (Günther 1878) micro-, small; ops, eye, ⅐ length of head and more than ½ length of snout
Melamphaes nikolayi Kotlyar 2012 in honor of Kotlyar’s father, Nikolay Efimovich Kotlyar (1908-1994)
Melamphaes occlusus Kotlyar 2012 hidden or concealed, referring to how it was possibly included into the composition of another species, M. microps
Melamphaes pachystomus Kotlyar 2011 pachys, thick; stomus, body, referring to its stout body shape
Melamphaes papavereus Kotlyar 2016 –eus, adjectival suffix: papaver, poppy, referring to small dotted pigments on body and fins, which resemble poppy seeds
Melamphaes parini Kotlyar 1999 in honor of the “well-known” (translation) ichthyologist Nikolai Vasil’evich Parin (1932-2012), Russian Academy of Sciences
Melamphaes parvus Ebeling 1962 small, referring to its relatively small size compared to sympatric congeners
Melamphaes polylepis Ebeling 1962 poly, many; lepis, scale, referring to relatively large number of horizontal and oblique scale rows
Melamphaes proximus Kotlyar 2015 nearest or closest, referring to its close relation to the Atlantic M. longivelis
Melamphaes pumilus Ebeling 1962 dwarfish, referring to small size of adults (18.0-22.5 mm)
Melamphaes shcherbachevi Kotlyar 2015 in honor of friend and colleague Yuri Nikolayevich Shcherbachev, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, “famous” (translation) researcher of deep-sea fauna
Melamphaes simus Ebeling 1962 pug-nosed, referring to the “fancied flat or pug-nosed appearance rendered by the raised antorbital ridge”
Melamphaes spinifer Ebeling 1962 spinus, spine; –ifer, to bear, referring to enlarged spines on preopercle
Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill 1883) sub-, below; orbitus, orbit, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to end of maxillary reaching to below hind margin of orbit
Melamphaes succedanaus Kotlyar 2015 translated from Latin into Russian as “replacing,” referring to how it replaces in the eastern Pacific Ocean closely related species of the M. longivelis complex from the Indian Ocean and western Pacific
Melamphaes typhlops (Lowe 1843) typhlos, blind; ops, eye, presumably referring to its minute eyes (“oculu minuti”)
Melamphaes xestoachidus Kotlyar 2011 xestos, smoothed; achidus, spined, referring to absence of spur on haemal arch of first caudal vertebrae
Poromitra Goode & Bean 1883 poros, hole; mitra, mitre or peaked cap; according to Goode & Bean (1896), name means with “openings in its shields,” referring to “central depression in each round, concentrically-grooved scale” of P. capito (apparently the cycloid scales, or “shields,” reminded the authors of conical peaked caps; Jordan & Evermann [1896] translate mitra as stomacher, a V-shaped piece of decorative cloth worn over chest and stomach, but we fail to see how that interpretation could apply)
Poromitra agafonovae Kotlyar 2009 in honor of Tat’yana Borisovna Agafonova (1950-2004), friend and research colleague, for her contribution to the study of open-ocean fishes, particularly the family Nomeidae; in addition, she and Kotlyar collaborated on the monograph Commercial Fishes of Russia (2006)
Poromitra atlantica (Norman 1929) –ica, belonging to: the Atlantic, described from the South Atlantic (also occurs in southeastern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific)
Poromitra capito Goode & Bean 1883 large-headed, referring to its “very large” head, nearly as long as trunk in young specimens
Poromitra coronata (Gilchrist & von Bonde 1924) crowned, referring to “crenulated crown-like crest” on head and above eye
Poromitra crassa Parin & Ebeling 1980 thick, fat or stout, referring to its body shape
Poromitra crassiceps (Günther 1878) crassus, fat or stout; ceps, head, described as “very thick, with short snout”
Poromitra cristiceps (Gilbert 1890) crista, crown; ceps, head, referring to well-developed system of mucous canals on head, “their margins raised into high this crests”
Poromitra curilensis Kotlyar 2008 –ensis, suffix denoting place: referring to its distribution not far from the Kuril Islands of the Russian Far East
Poromitra decipiens Kotlyar 2008 delusive, referring to how it is easily confused with the closely related P. crassiceps
Poromitra frontosa (Garman 1899) with a broad head, referring to its “massive” head
Poromitra gibbsi Parin & Borodulina 1989 in honor of the late Robert H. Gibbs, Jr. (1929-1988), U.S. National Museum, “one of the foremost authorities on mesopelagic ichthyofauna” (translation)
Poromitra glochidiata Kotlyar 2008 barbed, referring to hook-like spinules on preoperculum
Poromitra indooceanica Kotlyar 2008 –ica, belonging to: Indian Ocean, where it occurs in the subtropical zone
Poromitra jucunda Kotlyar 2010 attractive or pleasant, allusion not explained nor evident
Poromitra kukuevi Kotlyar 2008 in honor of Russian ichthyologist Yefim Izrailevich Kukuev (b. 1947), for his contributions to the study of deep-sea fishes
Poromitra macrophthalma (Gilchrist 1903) macro-, large; ophthalmus, eye, its diameter ½ height of body and nearly two times in length of head
Poromitra megalops (Lütken 1878) mega-, large; ops, eye, referring to its larger eyes compared to Melamphaes typhlops, its presumed congener at the time
Poromitra nigriceps (Zugmayer 1911) nigro-, black; ceps, head, allusion not explained but clearly referring to its large black head
Poromitra nigrofulva (Garman 1899) nigro-, black; fulvus, brownish yellow, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to its brown-yellow color in life and black color in alcohol
Poromitra oscitans Ebeling 1975 yawning or listless, referring to the “presumed sluggish nature of this large-mouthed fish”
Poromitra rugosa (Chapman 1939) rough or wrinkled (rugose), referring to “rough and spinous nature” of head
Poromitra unicornis (Gilbert 1905) uni-, one; cornis, horn, referring to a slender horn-like spine arising from middle of snout above nostrils, directed vertically upwards
Scopeloberyx Zugmayer 1911 Scopelus, an old name of some large-eyed fish, from scopus, to look, historically applied to lanternfishes and other pelagic or deep-sea fishes with large eyes, here referring to “slightly compressed and scopeliform” (translation) body shape of S. opercularis; beryx, a beryciform fish
Scopeloberyx bannikovi Kotlyar 2004 in honor of Russian ichthyopaleontologist Aleksandr Fedorovich Bannikov (b. 1954), Russian Academy of Sciences, who “repeatedly rendered [Kotlyar] invaluable aid in his investigations” (translation)
Scopeloberyx malayanus malayanus (Weber 1913) –anus, belonging to: Malay Archipelago, where Manipa Strait, type locality, is situated
Scopeloberyx malayanus balushkini Kotlyar 2004 in honor of “prominent” Russian ichthyologist Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin (1948-2021), Russian Academy of Sciences, whose numerous publication on sytematics of oceanic fishes of the Southern Hemisphere are “well known in Russia and abroad” (translation)
Scopeloberyx maxillaris (Garman 1899) presumably referring to maxillary “more than half as long as the head, reaching one diameter of the orbit farther backward than the latter”
Scopeloberyx microlepis (Norman 1937) micro-, small; lepis, referring to its smaller scales compared to S. opisthopterus
Scopeloberyx opercularis Zugmayer 1911 presumably referring to operculum bearing a pointed membranous extension supported by an outgrowth of the opercular bone
Scopeloberyx opisthopterus (Parr 1933) opistho-, behind; pterus, fin, referring to “very posterior” insertion of ventral fins
Scopeloberyx pequenoi Kotlyar 2004 in honor of ichthyologist German Pequeño R. (b. 1941), Universidad Austral de Chile, a “great expert” in the ichthyofauna of the southeastern Pacific Ocean (translation)
Scopeloberyx robustus (Günther 1887) stout, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to its “thick” head
Scopeloberyx rossicus Kotlyar 2004 Russian, referring to its distribution in the Far East marine waters of Russia
Scopeloberyx rubriventer (Koefoed 1953) rubri-, red; venter, belly, referring to a “red tinge” from base of pectoral fin towards anus
Scopelogadus Vaillant 1888 combining the form of a Scopelus (=Myctophum, Myctophidae) with thoracic ventral fins like a Gadus, or cod
Scopelogadus beanii (Günther 1887) in honor of ichthyologist Tarleton H. Bean (1846-1916), U.S. National Museum, who described this species as Plectromus crassiceps in 1885, secondarily preoccupied by Scopelus (now Promitra) crassiceps Günther 1878 when Günther placed both in Melamphaes
Scopelogadus bispinosus (Gilbert 1915) bi-, two; spinosus, spiny, referring to two spinous rays in dorsal fin
Scopelogadus mizolepis (Günther 1878) mizon, greater; lepis, scale; although scales were missing on the specimen Günther examined, he surmised they were of an “unusually large size”
Scopelogadus multilamellatus Kotlyar 2021 multi-, many; lamellatus, lamellated or laminated, referring to larger number of pseudobranchial filaments (9-11) compared with S. mizolepis, S. bispinosus and S. beanii (2-8)
Scopelogadus perplexus Kotlyar 2021 confusing or ambiguous, referring to how it had been misidentified as S. mizolepis and S. bispinosus
Scopelogadus unispinis Ebeling & Weed 1963 uni-, one; spinosus, spiny, referring to single spinous ray of dorsal fin
Sio Moss 1962 “an arbitrary combination of letters, neuter in gender” (note: of the 34 specimens that Woods examined, five were from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, whose official abbreviation is SIO)
Sio nordenskjoldii (Lönnberg 1905) in honor of Lönnberg’s friend Otto Nordenskjöld (1869-1928), Finnish-Swedish geologist, geographer and polar explorer, who led expedition that collected type
Family BERYCIDAE Alfonsinos
2 genera · 10 species
Beryx Cuvier 1829 beryx or berys, a Greek name for an indeterminate species of fish, which Cuvier chose to apply to a “peculiar family of perch” (translation)
Beryx decadactylus Cuvier 1829 deci-, ten; daktylos, finger, referring to 10 soft rays of the ventral fins
Beryx mollis Abe 1959 soft, referring to its “softer flesh” compared to both congeners
Beryx splendens Lowe 1834 glowing, presumably referring to its bright-red coloration
Centroberyx Gill 1862 kentron, thorn or spine, allusion not explained, presumably referring to spines on any or all of the following: lower mandibular, inferior exposed surface of branchiostegals, operculum, and suboperculum; Beryx, type genus of family
Centroberyx affinis (Günther 1859) related, described as “closely allied” to C. lineatus
Centroberyx australis Shimizu & Hutchins 1987 southern, referring to its distribution in southern Australian waters
Centroberyx druzhinini (Busakhin 1981) in honor of “well-known” (translation) ichthyologist Anatoly Dmitrievich Druzhinin (1926-1979), All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO)
Centroberyx gerrardi (Günther 1887) patronym not identified, probably in honor of Edward Gerrard (1810-1910), taxidermist, British Museum, where Günther worked
Centroberyx lineatus (Cuvier 1829) lined, referring to reddish scale edges that form narrow horizontal lines along the sides
Centroberyx rubricaudus Liu & Shen 1985 rubrus, red; caudus, tail, referring to red caudal fin
Centroberyx spinosus (Gilchrist 1903) spiny, presumably referring to spines on any or all of the following: lower mandibular, inferior exposed surface of branchiostegals, operculum, and suboperculum