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Encyclopedia > Beardfish
Beardfishes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Polymixiiformes
Family: Polymixiidae
Genera

Polymixia
Berycopsis (extinct)
Dalmatichthys (extinct)
Omosoma (extinct)
Omosomopsis (extinct)

The beardfishes are a small family (Polymixiidae) of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels.


About five species of the one living genus Polymixia are known, along with several fossil genera.


At present they are classified in their own order Polymixiiformes, but as Nelson says in Fishes of the World, "few groups have been shifted back and forth as frequently as this one". Previous groupings include Beryciformes.


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Beardfish, Polymixia berndti Gilbert, 1905 (158 words)
The Beardfish has large silver scales, a long-based dorsal fin and a pair of long chin barbels (glossary).
This species usually lives in deep marine waters (18m-520m) and is mostly seen in the catches of trawlers.
It is found on the north-western coast of Western Australia and also occurs from northern Queensland to the southern coast of New South Wales.
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