Melamphaes

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Kingdom Animalia Family Melamphaidae Phylum Chordata Order Stephanoberyciformes		Class Actinopterygii Scientific name Melamphaes Rank Genus

Similar Poromitra, Scopelogadus, Stephanoberyciformes, Poromitra crassiceps, Lampanyctus

Melamphaes is a genus of fish in the family Melamphaidae found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently 37 recognized species in this genus:

Melamphaes acanthomus Ebeling, 1962 (Slender bigscale)

Melamphaes contradictorius Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes danae Ebeling, 1962 (Big-scale fish)

Melamphaes ebelingi Keene, 1973

Melamphaes eulepis Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes eurous Kotlyar, 2016

Melamphaes falsidicus Kotlyar, 2011

Melamphaes hubbsi Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes inconspicuus Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes indicus Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes janae Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes kobylyanskyi Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes laeviceps Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes lentiginosus Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes leprus Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes longivelis A. E. Parr, 1933 (Eye-brow bigscale)

Melamphaes lugubris C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (High-snout bigscale)

Melamphaes macrocephalus A. E. Parr, 1931

Melamphaes manifestus Kotlyar, 2011

Melamphaes microps (Günther, 1878)

Melamphaes nikolayi Kotlyar, 2012

Melamphaes occlusus Kotlyar, 2012

Melamphaes pachystomus Kotlyar, 2011

Melamphaes papavereus Kotlyar, 2016

Melamphaes parini Kotlyar, 1999

Melamphaes parvus Ebeling, 1962 (Little bigscale)

Melamphaes polylepis Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes proximus Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes pumilus Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes shcherbachevi Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes simus Ebeling, 1962 (Ridge-head bigscale)

Melamphaes spinifer Ebeling, 1962

Melamphaes suborbitalis (T. N. Gill, 1883) (Shoulder-spine bigscale)

Melamphaes succedaneus Kotlyar, 2015

Melamphaes typhlops (R. T. Lowe, 1843)

Melamphaes uniformis Kotlyar, 2013

Melamphaes xestoachidus Kotlyar, 2011

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