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Illustrated comparison of body shapes for various fish: a dark anglerfish with a bioluminescent lure, a round pancake batfish, a flat sargassum fish, a slender Eastern cleaner-clingfish, a dark deep-sea angler, a silvery beardfish, and a pale Southern cave fish. Each fish is labeled with its common and scientific name, representing different orders within Paracanthopterygii.
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Polymixiiformes

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Illustrated comparison of body shapes for various fish: a dark anglerfish with a bioluminescent lure, a round pancake batfish, a flat sargassum fish, a slender Eastern cleaner-clingfish, a dark deep-sea angler, a silvery beardfish, and a pale Southern cave fish. Each fish is labeled with its common and scientific name, representing different orders within Paracanthopterygii.
Paracanthopterygians Body plans of representative members of the orders Gobiesociformes, Lophiiformes, Percopsiformes, and Polymixiiformes.

The order Polymixiiformes includes beardfishes, which are small, deep-sea marine fishes found in tropical and temperate regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. These fish are characterized by two chin barbels that give them a beard-like appearance. They typically inhabit depths between 200 to 600 meters (650 to 2,000 feet). The genus Polymixia constitutes the family Polymixiidae within this order. Beardfishes are not large, with the stout beardfish (P. nobilis) reaching less than 20 centimeters (8 inches) in length. They possess smooth scales and barbels on their chin.12

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