Fish Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)	Year
Melamphaes acanthomus	Slender bigscale	Eastern Pacific		1962
Melamphaes contradictorius		Western Pacific	3.1 SL	2015
Melamphaes danae	Bigscale	Indo-Pacific	2.3 SL	1962
Melamphaes ebelingi		Western Central Atlantic.	13.7 SL	1973
Melamphaes eulepis		Eastern Atlantic	46.8 SL	1962
Melamphaes eurous		Eastern Central Pacific.		2016
Melamphaes falsidicus		Northern Atlantic	8.7 SL	2011
Melamphaes hubbsi		South Atlantic	2.5 SL	1962
Melamphaes inconspicuus		Atlantic Ocean		2015
Melamphaes indicus		Southeast Pacific		1962
Melamphaes janae		Indo-Pacific; absent in t	8.6 SL	1962
Melamphaes kobylyanskyi		Central and Southeast Atl		2015
Melamphaes laeviceps		Southeast Pacific		1962
Melamphaes lentiginosus		Atlantic Ocean	1.8 SL	2015
Melamphaes leprus		Eastern Atlantic	11.3 SL	1962
Melamphaes longivelis	Eyebrow bigscale	Atlantic and Pacific	10.6 SL	1933
Melamphaes lugubris	Highsnout melamphid	North Pacific	8.5 SL	1890
Melamphaes macrocephalus		Eastern Pacific Ocean	12.8 SL	1931
Melamphaes manifestus		Eastern Central Atlantic	8.7 SL	2011
Melamphaes microps		Antitropical. South Atla	9.6 SL	1878
Melamphaes nikolayi		Northwest Pacific	6.2 SL	2012
Melamphaes occlusus		Southwestern Indian Ocean	11.7 SL	2012
Melamphaes pachystomus		Southeast Pacific	7.2 SL	2011
Melamphaes papavereus		Eastern Indian Ocean	3.5 SL	2016
Melamphaes parini		Northwest Pacific	11.3 SL	1999
Melamphaes parvus	Little bigscale	Eastern Pacific	4.9 SL	1962
Melamphaes polylepis		Circumtropical in North A	7.9 SL	1962
Melamphaes proximus		Indo-West Pacific	9.3 SL	2015
Melamphaes pumilus		Western Atlantic	2.3 SL	1962
Melamphaes shcherbachevi		Western Indian Ocean	2 SL	2015
Melamphaes simus	Ridgehead	Indo-Pacific and Atlantic	2.9 SL	1962
Melamphaes spinifer		Southeast Pacific		1962
Melamphaes suborbitalis	Shoulderspine bigscale	North Atlantic	10.6 SL	1883
Melamphaes succedaneus		Eastern Pacific. High Se	10.6 SL	2015
Melamphaes typhlops		North Atlantic	7.8 SL	1843
Melamphaes xestoachidus		Northwestern Pacific Ocea	8.7 SL	2011
Poromitra agafonovae		Western Indian Ocean	13.2 SL	2009
Poromitra atlantica		Circum-Antarctic, between	11.6 SL	1929
Poromitra capito		North Atlantic, Northwest	10 SL	1883
Poromitra coronata		Southeastern Atlantic Oce	10.7 SL	1924
Poromitra crassa		Western Pacific	11 SL	1980
Poromitra crassiceps	Crested bigscale	Distribution needs to be	14.8 SL	1878
Poromitra cristiceps		North Pacific Ocean.	12.1 SL	1890
Poromitra curilensis		Northern Pacific	11.2 SL	2008
Poromitra decipiens		Eastern Indian Ocean	11.5 SL	2008
Poromitra frontosa		Eastern Pacific Ocean, fr	13.4 SL	1899
Poromitra gibbsi		Southeast Pacific.		1989
Poromitra glochidiata		Eastern Indian Ocean	10.9 SL	2008
Poromitra indooceanica		Indian Ocean.	13.1 SL	2008
Poromitra jucunda		Pacific Ocean	5.0 SL	2010
Poromitra kukuevi		Southwest Atlantic.	4.9 SL	2008
Poromitra macrophthalma		Indo-Pacific	4.5 SL	1903
Poromitra megalops		Atlantic Ocean.	6.4 SL	1878
Poromitra nigriceps		Northern Atlantic Ocean,	13.5 SL	1911
Poromitra nigrofulva		Eastern Pacific Ocean	9.9 SL	1899
Poromitra oscitans	Yawning	Indo-Pacific	8.2 SL	1975
Poromitra rugosa		Northeastern Pacific	9.4 SL	1939
Poromitra unicornis		Pacific Ocean	11.4 SL	1905
Scopeloberyx bannikovi		Western Atlantic, equator		2004
Scopeloberyx malayanus		Indo-West Pacific		1913
Scopeloberyx maxillaris		Eastern Pacific Ocean. Tr		1899
Scopeloberyx microlepis	Southern bigscale	Indian Ocean. South Paci	4.1 TL	1937
Scopeloberyx opisthopterus		Atlantic, Indian and Paci	3.7 SL	1933
Scopeloberyx pequenoi		Eastern Pacific, tropical		2004
Scopeloberyx robustus	Longjaw bigscale	Circumglobal	7.3 SL	1887
Scopeloberyx rossicus		Northwest Pacific.		2004
Scopeloberyx rubriventer		North Atlantic		1953
Scopelogadus beanii	Bean's bigscale	Southwest Pacific	12.2 SL	1887
Scopelogadus bispinosus	Twospine bigscale	Eastern Pacific	11 TL	1915
Scopelogadus mizolepis	Ragged bigscale	Indian and Atlantic	9.4 SL	1878
Scopelogadus unispinis		Western Pacific		1963
Sio nordenskjoldii	Nordenskjold's bigscale	Atlantic, Indian and Paci	12.3 SL	1905

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Fish Identification: Find Species

Family: Melamphaidae Bigscale fishes or ridgeheads(See list of species below)

Family: Melamphaidae Bigscale fishes or ridgeheads

(See list of species below)