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Class: Teleostei
Order: Acropomatiformes
Family: Epigonidae Deepwater cardinalfishes

Genus: Epigonus

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Scientific Name English Name Distribution Max. Length (cm) Year
Epigonus affinis Smooth-nose deepwater cardinalfish Eastern Central Atlantic 14.5 SL 1986
Epigonus angustifrons Indian Ocean 35.8 SL 1987
Epigonus atherinoides Pacific Ocean 15 SL 1905
Epigonus carbonarius Charcoal deepwater cardinalfish Eastern Central Pacific 9.5 SL 2011
Epigonus cavaticus Palauan deepwater cardinalfish Western Central Pacific 7.0 TL 2007
Epigonus chilensis Southeast Pacific 20.8 2012
Epigonus constanciae Eastern Atlantic 19.7 SL 1880
Epigonus crassicaudus Southeast Pacific 46 SL 1959
Epigonus ctenolepis Northwest Pacific 10 SL 1983
Epigonus denticulatus Pencil cardinal Cosmopolitan. Western At 20 TL 1950
Epigonus devaneyi Eastern Central Pacific 1985
Epigonus draco Dragon deepwater cardinalfish Western Pacific 16 SL 2015
Epigonus elegans Southeast Pacific 15.3 SL 1986
Epigonus elongatus Western Indian Ocean 16 SL 1986
Epigonus exodon Western Indian Ocean 9.7 SL 2012
Epigonus fragilis Eastern Central Pacific 17 SL 1922
Epigonus glossodontus Eastern Central Pacific 1985
Epigonus heracleus Southwest Pacific 13.1 SL 1986
Epigonus indicus Indian deepwater cardinalfish Western Indian Ocean 10.5 SL 2020
Epigonus lenimen Big-eyed cardinalfish Indo-West Pacific 22 SL 1935
Epigonus lifouensis Loyalty deepwater cardinalfish Southwest Pacific 20.3 SL 2013
Epigonus machaera Southwest Pacific 17.4 SL 2012
Epigonus macrops Luminous deepsea cardinalfish Indo-Pacific 21.2 SL 1906
Epigonus marimonticolus Western Indian Ocean 16.5 SL 1986
Epigonus marisrubri Red Sea 14.0 SL 2009
Epigonus mayeri Angolan deepwater cardinalfish Eastern Central Atlantic 11.4 SL 2011
Epigonus notacanthus Southeast Pacific 23.8 SL 1986
Epigonus occidentalis Western deepsea cardinalfish Western Central Atlantic 25.8 TL 1896
Epigonus okamotoi Okamoto’s deepwater cardinalfish Western Pacific 16.2 SL 2017
Epigonus oligolepis Western Central Atlantic 1974
Epigonus pandionis Bigeye Western Atlantic 23.5 TL 1881
Epigonus parini Southwest Pacific 16.8 SL 1987
Epigonus pectinifer Pacific Ocean 15.5 SL 1974
Epigonus robustus Robust cardinalfish Circumglobal in southern 22 TL 1927
Epigonus telescopus Black cardinal fish North Atlantic 75 TL 1810
Epigonus thai Eastern Indian Ocean 5.9 SL 2012
Epigonus trunovi Southeastern Atlantic, Va 22.5 SL 2012
Epigonus tuberculatus Keeling deepwater cardinalfish Eastern Indian Ocean 15.4 SL 2013
Epigonus waltersensis Western Indian Ocean 12.9 SL 1986



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