''Microichthys'' is a
genus
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of very small
deepwater cardinalfishes which were only known from the
Strait of Messina
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in the
Mediterranean Sea
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, although ''M. coccoi'' has recently been recorded in the
Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia. It is located between the Balkans and Anatolia, and covers an area of some . In the north, the Aegean is connected to the Marmara Sea, which in turn con ...
and around the
Azores
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.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
* ''
Microichthys atlanticus''
Fricke, Ordines, Williston, 2020
* ''
Microichthys coccoi''
Rüppell, 1852
* ''
Microichthys grandis''
Wageningen Marine Research
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Wageningen Marine Research was created in 2006 by the merger of the Nation ...
, 2023 (great deepwater cardinalfish)
* ''
Microichthys sanzoi''
Spartà, 1950
References
Epigonidae
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