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Genus of fishes

Alepocephalus

California slickhead, Alepocephalus tenebrosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Alepocephaliformes
Family:	Alepocephalidae
Genus:	Alepocephalus Risso, 1820
Type species
Alepocephalus rostratus Risso, 1820

Alepocephalus is a genus of slickheads found in all oceans.

Species

Alepocephalus sp.

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:

Alepocephalus agassizii Goode & T. H. Bean, 1883 (Agassiz' slickhead)

Agassiz' slickhead, Alepocephalus agassizii

Alepocephalus andersoni Fowler, 1934
Alepocephalus antipodianus (Parrott, 1948) (Antipodean slickhead)
Alepocephalus asperifrons Garman, 1899
Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923 (Small scaled brown slickhead)
Alepocephalus bairdii Goode & T. H. Bean, 1879 (Baird's smooth-head)

Baird's smooth-head, Alepocephalus bairdii

Alepocephalus bicolor Alcock, 1891 (Bicolor slickhead)
Alepocephalus blanfordii Alcock, 1892
Alepocephalus dentifer Sazonov & Ivanov, 1979
Alepocephalus fundulus Garman, 1899
Alepocephalus longiceps Lloyd, 1909 (Longfin slickhead)
Alepocephalus longirostris Okamura & Kawanishi, 1984 (Longsnout slickhead)
Alepocephalus melas F. de Buen, 1961
Alepocephalus owstoni S. Tanaka, 1908 (Owston's slickhead)
Alepocephalus planifrons Sazonov, 1993

Smalleye smooth-head, Alepocephalus productus

Alepocephalus productus T. N. Gill, 1883 (Smalleye smooth-head)
Alepocephalus rostratus A. Risso, 1820 (Risso's smooth-head)
Alepocephalus tenebrosus C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (California slickhead)
Alepocephalus triangularis Okamura & Kawanishi, 1984 (Triangulate slickhead)

Risso's smooth-head, Alepocephalus rostratus

Alepocephalus umbriceps D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1914 (Slickhead)

References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Alepocephalidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Alepocephalus". FishBase. February 2012 version.

Taxon identifiers
Alepocephalus	Wikidata: Q2201186 AFD: Alepocephalus BOLD: 2868 CoL: RQM GBIF: 3241113 iNaturalist: 86320 ITIS: 162308 NBN: NBNSYS0000178959 NCBI: 134617 NZOR: 09cdb269-99b5-44b5-8c3b-a043b83aa977 Open Tree of Life: 993269 Paleobiology Database: 301207 WoRMS: 125868

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