- 230 species. The
common names grinners,
lizardfishes and allies, or
aulopiforms are
sometimes used for this group. The
scientific name
means "Aulopus-shaped"...
- swim bladders, and the
stomach is
highly distensible.
Evermannella are
aulopiforms that have
fusiform body structures,
resulting in the fish
being more...
-
disparity among members of the group. They were
active and fast
predatory aulopiforms that were
important members of the
Cretaceous marine food webs, with...
-
Greeneyes are deep-sea
aulopiform marine fishes in the
small family Chlorophthalmidae.
Thought to have a cir****global
distribution in
tropical and temperate...
- enchos, 'spear' and Gr****: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is an
extinct genus of
aulopiform ray-finned fish
related to
lancetfish and lizardfish.
Species of Enchodus...
- (bottom-dwelling)
marine and
estuarine bony
fishes that
belong to the
aulopiform fish order, a
diverse group of
marine ray-finned fish
consisting of some...
-
Fossil of the
Cretaceous aulopiform †Nematonotus longispinus...
- sp.
Articulated skeleton A
cimolichthyid aulopiform.
Dercetidae indet.
Complete skeleton A
dercetid aulopiform,
similar to
Dercetis triqueter and possibly...
-
Stratodus is a
genus of
giant prehistoric aulopiform fish
found in Cretaceous-aged
marine strata of Kansas, Alabama, Morocco, Israel, and Niger, South...
- the type
genus of the
family Dercetidae, a
group of slender,
elongate aulopiforms,
which were
related to
modern lizardfish and grinners. It is
known from...
