Xenodermichthys Gunther, 1878

Body fairly elongate. Snout short and blunt, forehead profile strongly rounded over eye, which is much larger than snout. Pyloric caeca 4-7. Dorsal and anal fins fairly long, approximately equal and opposite to each other; dorsal finrays 27-31, pectoral finrays 7-8, pelvic finrays 6 (without a splint bone), anal finrays 26-30. No scales; light organs present, nodular and not on stalks.
Mesopelagic at 100-1,000 m, associated with steep slopes; locally very numerous.

Species 2; in Clofnam area 1.

Recent revisions: Markle (1978).

Kingdom Animalia
Class Osteichthyes
Genus Xenodermichthys
Genus Xenodermichthys

Scientific synonyms and common names

Xenodermichthys Günther, 1878
Gender: M; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5) 2: 250
Type: X. nodulosus Günther, by monotypy, South of Yeddo, Japan.

Synonyms

Aleposomus Gill, 1884, Am. Nat., 18: 433 (type: A. copei Gill, by monotypy, no locality, nomen nudum).

Günther, A. 1878. Preliminary notices of Deep-Sea Fishes Collected during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (5) 2: pp. 17-28, pp. 179-187, pp. 248-251.

Gill, T. N. 1884b. New families of fishes (Stephanoberycidae and Derichthyidae) recently added to the deep sea fauna. Am. Nat., 18: 433.

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