''Neobathyclupea'' is a

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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 ...

in the

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Bathyclupeidae Bathyclupeidae is a family of acropomatiform ray-finned fish, called deep sea herrings. They are marine fishes found in tropical waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. They grow up to about 20 cm long ...

found in the

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and

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, 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 ...

Species

There are currently 7 recognized species in this genus: * '' Neobathyclupea argentea'' ( Goode & T. H. Bean, 1896) (West Atlantic deep-sea herring) * '' Neobathyclupea elongata'' ( Trunov, 1975) (Slender deep-sea herring) * '' Neobathyclupea gracilis'' ( Fowler, 1938) (West Pacific deep-sea herring) * '' Neobathyclupea japanotaiwana'' (

Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...

, 2014) (North Pacific deep-sea herring) * '' Neobathyclupea malayana'' ( M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Malaysian deep-sea herring) * '' Neobathyclupea megaceps'' ( Fowler, 1938) (Big-headed deep-sea herring) * '' Neobathyclupea melanoptera''

, Gon & Psomadakis, 2016 Abstract

References

Bathyclupeidae Taxa named by Artem Mikhailovich Prokofiev {{Acropomatiformes-stub