''Searsioides'' is a genus of
tubeshoulder
The tubeshoulders are a family, Platytroctidae, of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Alepocephaliformes
Alepocephaliformes is an order of marine deep-sea teleost fishes. It was previously classified as the suborder Alepocephaloidei of the ...
s native to the western central
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 two recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Searsioides calvala''
( Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1979)
* ''
Searsioides multispinus''
( Sazonov, 1977)
References
Platytroctidae
Ray-finned fish genera
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