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Stephanoberyciformes
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Stephanoberyciformes

Stephanoberyciforms
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Stephanoberyciformes
Families
Melamphaidae (ridgeheads)
Gibberichthyidae (gibberfishes)
Stephanoberycidae (pricklefishes)
Hispidoberycidae
Stephanoberyciformes is an order of marine ray-finned fishes, consisting of about 40 species, mostly uncommon deep-sea types.

Common characteristics include a generally roundish body, a toothless palate, rather thin skull bones, and a missing orbitosphenoid bone (except for Hispidoberyx).

Nelson classifies the whalefishes (Cetomimiformes) as a superfamily Cetomimoidea of this order.

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