Crestfish

id: crestfish-167-3676058
title: Crestfish
text: Crestfishes, family Lophotidae, are lampriform fishes found in most oceans. It consists of two extant and four extinct genera. They are elongated, ribbon-like fishes, silver in color, found in deep tropical and subtropical waters worldwide. Their scientific name is from Greek lophos meaning "crest" and refer to the crest that emerges from the snout and head; this structure gives them their other name of unicorn fishes. The extant genera all possess ink sacs that open into their cloacae from whic
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category slug: encyclopedia
description: Family of fishes
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crestfish
date created: 2006-04-03T10:30:24Z
date modified: 2024-08-30T06:52:22Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Lophotus_capellei.jpg","width":1221,"height":706}
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