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Beardfish

Beardfishes

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Polymixiiformes
Family:	Polymixiidae

Genera

Polymixia
Berycopsis (extinct)
Dalmatichthys (extinct)
Omosoma (extinct)
Omosomopsis (extinct)

The beardfishes are a small family (Polymixiidae) of deep-sea marine ray-finned fish named for their pair of long hyoid barbels.

About five species of the one living genus Polymixia are known, along with several fossil genera.

At present they are classified in their own order Polymixiiformes, but as Nelson says in Fishes of the World, "few groups have been shifted back and forth as frequently as this one". Previous groupings include Beryciformes.

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