Tinselfish

Tinselfishes
Thorny tinselfish, Grammicolepis brachiusculus, filmed by the NOAA Ocean Explorer at Northampton Seamounts, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of Laysan, Hawaii.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Zeiformes
Family: Grammicolepididae
Poey, 1873
Subfamilies & genera[1]

Subfamily Grammicolepidinae
Grammicolepis
Xenolepidichthys
Subfamily Macrurocyttinae
Macrurocyttus

The Grammicolepididae are a small family of deep-sea ray-finned fishes in the order Zeiformes.[1][2][3][4] They are called tinselfishes due to their silvery color.[5] They are found near the bottom on the continental slope in the tropical and temperate regions of the Atlantic, Indian and western-central Pacific Oceans. They are of no commercial interest but are sometimes caught in trawls.[4]

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