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37 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)
Scientific Name
English Name
Distribution
Max. Length (cm)
Althoffia tumida
Atlantic Ocean, Indo-West
Balhochordaes charon
Northern Atlantic and the
Balhochordaes stygius
Northeast Atlantic
Bathochordaeus charon
Atlantic and Indo-Pacific
Folia gracilis
Circumglobal except the A
0.06 TRKL
Folia mediterranea
Northeast Atlantic and th
Megalocercus abyssorum
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
0.7 TL
Megalocercus huxleyi
Indo-Pacific.
Mesochordaeus bahamasi
Northeast Atlantic
Mesoikopleura enterospira
Northeast Atlantic
Mesoikopleura gyroceanis
Northeast Atlantic and th
Mesoikopleura haranti
Northeast Atlantic and th
Mesoikopleura youngbluthi
Northeast Atlantic
Oikopleura albicans
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
0.7 TL
Oikopleura caudaornata
Northeast Atlantic
Oikopleura cophocerca
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
0.26 TL
Oikopleura cornutogastra
Indo-West Pacific and Sou
Oikopleura dioica
Circumglobal except Antar
0.15 TL
Oikopleura fusiformis
Circumglobal.
0.3 TL
Oikopleura gaussica
Atlantic Ocean and the An
Oikopleura gorskyi
Northeast Atlantic
Oikopleura gracilis
Atlantic Ocean, Indo-Paci
Oikopleura inflata
Northeast Atlantic
Oikopleura intermedia
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
0.5 TL
Oikopleura labradoriensis
Eastern Pacific, Northern
Oikopleura longicauda
Circumglobal, common in w
0.35 TL
Oikopleura parva
Circumglobal in midwater.
0.3 TL
Oikopleura rufescens
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
0.5 TL
Oikopleura vanhoeffeni
Northern Atlantic and the
Oikopleura villafrancae
Northeast Atlantic and th
Pelagopleura australis
Northeast Atlantic
Pelagopleura gracilis
Eastern Indian Ocean
Pelagopleura magna
Northern Atlantic.
Pelagopleura oppressa
Northeast Atlantic
Pelagopleura verticalis
Northern Atlantic and the
Sinisteroffia scrippsi
Pacific Ocean
Stegosoma magnum
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
1 TL