Mirognathus
Species of fish
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Mirognathus is a monospecific genus of deepwater maine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alepocephalidae, the slickheads. The only species in the genus is Mirognathus normani, the beaked slickhead or Norman's smooth-head, which is found in the north-east and western Atlantic Ocean, the western Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. This species grows to a standard length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in).[2][3]
| Mirognathus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Alepocephaliformes |
| Family: | Alepocephalidae |
| Genus: | Mirognathus A. E. Parr, 1951 |
| Species: | M. normani |
| Binomial name | |
| Mirognathus normani A. E. Parr, 1951 | |
