''Hyperoglyphe'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

medusafish Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of percomorph fishes. The family includes about 31 species. They are found in temperate and tropical waters throughout the world. Young '' Icichthys lockingtoni'' specimens are abundant in the coastal w ...

es native to the

Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

and

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

oceans.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * ''

Hyperoglyphe antarctica ''Hyperoglyphe antarctica'', the Antarctic butterfish, bluenose warehou, deepsea trevally, blue eye trevalla, blue-eye cod, bluenose sea bass, or deep sea trevalla, is a medusafish of the family '' Centrolophidae'' found in all the southern ocean ...

'' ( Carmichael, 1819) (Bluenose warehou) * '' Hyperoglyphe bythites'' ( Ginsburg, 1954) (Black driftfish) * '' Hyperoglyphe japonica'' ( Döderlein ( de), 1884) (Pacific barrelfish) * '' Hyperoglyphe macrophthalma'' ( A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1915) * ''

Hyperoglyphe perciformis ''Hyperoglyphe perciformis'', the barrelfish is a primarily Pelagic_fish#Bathypelagic_fish, bathypelagic species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Centrolophidae. The barrelfish is found in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Despite being in t ...

'' ( Mitchill, 1818) (Barrelfish) * '' Hyperoglyphe pringlei'' (

J. L. B. Smith James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyology, ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought ...

, 1949) (Black butterfish)

References

Centrolophidae Perciformes genera Marine fish genera Taxa named by Albert Günther {{Perciformes-stub