''Dactylopsaron'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

from the family

Hemerocoetidae Hemerocoetidae is a family of percomorph ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acropomatiformes. Genera The following genera are included within the Hemerocoetinae: * '' Acanthaphritis'' Günther, 1880 * '' Dactylopsaron'' Parin, 1990 * '' ...

. The only species in the genus, ''Dactylopsaron dimorphicum'' is found in the eastern South Pacific on the Salas y Gomez ridge and the adjacent part of the

Nazca Ridge The Nazca Ridge is a submarine ridge, located on the Nazca plate off the west coast of South America. This plate and ridge are currently subducting under the South American plate at a convergent boundary known as the Peru-Chile Trench at approxi ...

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Hemerocoetidae Monotypic ray-finned fish genera Fish described in 1990 Taxa named by Nikolai Vasilyevich Parin {{Acropomatiformes-stub