False long - tailed ( lat. Ateleopodidae ) is a family of marine ray-finned fishes of the monotypic order of the false long - tailed (Ateleopodiformes). It has about a dozen species in four genera.
| False long tail |
Ijimaia plicatellus |
| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetric |
| Nadotryad : | Ateleopodiformes |
| Squad: | False long- tailed ( Ateleopodiformes Berg , 1937 ) |
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| International Scientific Name |
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Ateleopodidae Bleeker , 1859 |
| Childbirth |
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- Ateleopus
- Guentherus
- Ijimaia
- Parateleopus
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False long-tailed fish are deep-sea, bottom, sea fishes. They live at a depth of 100 to 1200 m in the Caribbean Sea, in the eastern part of the Atlantic, the western and central parts of the Indo-Pacific region and off the Pacific coast of Central America.
Most species are poorly understood, but the Guentherus altivelis species is of potential interest to commercial fisheries.
