Microstomatidae

Microstomatidae

Slender argentine, Microstoma microstoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Osmeriformes
Family:	Microstomatidae
Genera
Microstoma Nansenia Xenophthalmichthys See text for species.

Microstomatidae is a family of osmeriform fishes.

They are native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are twenty species in three genera:

Genus Microstoma
- Slender argentine, Microstoma microstoma (Risso, 1810).
Genus Nansenia
- Nansenia ahlstromi Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia antarctica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan & Thompson, 1914.
- Nansenia atlantica Blache & Rossignol, 1962.
- Bluethroat argentine, Nansenia candida Cohen, 1958.
- Stout argentine, Nansenia crassa Lavenberg, 1965.
- Greenland argentine, Nansenia groenlandica (Reinhardt, 1840).
- Nansenia iberica Matallanas, 1985.
- Nansenia indica Kobyliansky, 1992.
- Nansenia longicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1922).
- Nansenia megalopa Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia oblita (Sarato, 1888).
- Nansenia obscura Kobyliansky & Usachev, 1992.
- Nansenia pelagica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia sanrikuensis Kanayama & Amaoka, 1983.
- Nansenia tenera Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
- Nansenia tenuicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Genus Xenophthalmichthys
- Xenophthalmichthys danae Regan, 1925.

References

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Microstomatidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
"Microstomatidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=553195. Retrieved 28 March 2006.