Normichthys: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Alepocephaliformes
- Family
- Platytroctidae
- Genus
- Normichthys
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Normichthys
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Normichthys
Normichthys is a genus of deepwater marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Platytroctidae, the tube shoulders. The species in this genus are known from tropical and temperate oceans around the world.
The name of the genus honours the British ichthyologist John Roxborough Norman who reported the type species of this genus, N. operosus, as Talismania homoptera in 1930.
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