The Chiasmodontidae, snaketooth fishes or swallowers, are a
family of deep-sea
percomorph fishes, part of the
order
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Trachiniformes, known from oceans worldwide.
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''Pseudoscopelus'' is a genus of snaketooth fishes.
Species
There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
* '' Pseudoscopelus altipinnis'' A. E. Parr, 1933
* '' Pseudoscopelus aphos'' Prokofiev & Kukuev, 2005
* '' Pseudoscopelus as ...
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References
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Trachiniformes
Marine fish families
Taxa named by Theodore Gill