English: Beardfishes.
Genus: 1, Polymixia; 1 family Polymixiidae.
Region: Atlantic, Indian, western Pacific Ocean.
Habitat: tropical and subtropical; deep-sea bottom-dwelling; depthdown to about 800 m.
Use: little economic importance.
ZoologyFish; pair of long hyoid barbels, beards.
Size: relatively small fish, up to 40 cm long.
TaxonomyPolymixiiformes were classified in their own order
Polymixiiformes. Nelson says that
Polymixiiformes have been shifted back and forth, to Paracanthoptergii,
Beryciformes.