WoRMS name details
Mirapinnidae
125462 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125462)
unaccepted
Family
Cetomimiformes accepted as Beryciformes
marine, terrestrial
Not documented
Taxonomy The juveniles of the species were thought to belong to a separate taxonomic family Mirapinnidae in the Cetomimiform order,...
Taxonomy The juveniles of the species were thought to belong to a separate taxonomic family Mirapinnidae in the Cetomimiform order, with three genera Eutaeniophorus, Mirapinna, and Parataeniophorus. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Mirapinnidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125462 on 2025-10-14
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Nomenclature
basis of record
van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Johnson, G. D. et al. (2009). Deep-sea mystery solved: astonishing larval transformations and extreme sexual dimorphism unite three fish families. Biology Letters 5 (2): 235–9, available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0722 [details]
Other
additional source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy The juveniles of the species were thought to belong to a separate taxonomic family Mirapinnidae in the Cetomimiform order, with three genera Eutaeniophorus, Mirapinna, and Parataeniophorus. [details]
