Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Osteichthyes
Classis: Actinopterygii
Subclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Superordo: Protacanthopterygii
Ordo: Argentiniformes
Subordo: Argentinoidei
Superfamilia: Argentinoidea
Familia: Microstomatidae
Subfamiliae: Microstomatinae - Bathylaginae
References
* Nelson, Joseph, S. (2006). Fishes of the World
. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471250317.
Vernacular names
Microstomatidae is a family of osmeriform fishes.
They are native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species
There are twenty species in three genera:
Genus Microstoma
Slender argentine, Microstoma microstoma (Risso, 1810).
Genus Nansenia
Nansenia ahlstromi Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Nansenia antarctica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan & Thompson, 1914.
Nansenia atlantica Blache & Rossignol, 1962.
Bluethroat argentine, Nansenia candida Cohen, 1958.
Stout argentine, Nansenia crassa Lavenberg, 1965.
Greenland argentine, Nansenia groenlandica (Reinhardt, 1840).
Nansenia iberica Matallanas, 1985.
Nansenia indica Kobyliansky, 1992.
Nansenia longicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Nansenia macrolepis (Gilchrist, 1922).
Nansenia megalopa Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Nansenia oblita (Sarato, 1888).
Nansenia obscura Kobyliansky & Usachev, 1992.
Nansenia pelagica Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Nansenia sanrikuensis Kanayama & Amaoka, 1983.
Nansenia tenera Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Nansenia tenuicauda Kawaguchi & Butler, 1984.
Genus Xenophthalmichthys
Xenophthalmichthys danae Regan, 1925.
References
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Microstomatidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
"Microstomatidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 March 2006.
