''Hyperoglyphe'' is a

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 ...

medusafish Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of scombriform ray-finned 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 ...

es native to the

Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for se ...

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 the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

oceans.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' Hyperoglyphe antarctica'' ( 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 bathypelagic species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Centrolophidae. The barrelfish is found in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. Despite being in the medusafish family, the barre ...

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

Hyperoglyphe pringlei ''Hyperoglyphe'' is a genus of medusafishes native to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' Hyperoglyphe antarctica'' ( Carmichael, 1819) (Bluenose warehou) * '' Hyperoglyphe byth ...

'' (

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 t ...

, 1949) (Black butterfish)

References

Centrolophidae Ray-finned fish genera Marine fish genera Taxa named by Albert Günther {{Scombroidei-stub