Deepsea Fangjaw
Sigmops bathyphilus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
Sigmops bathyphilus, commonly called the spark anglemouth, deepsea fangjaw or deepsea lightfish, is a species of fish in the family Gonostomatidae (anglemouths). Through genomic data scientists were able to create distinctions within the historical gonostoma genus, creating Gonostomatidae with three genus, Sigmops, gonostoma, and Cyclothone. Before molecular phylogeny the conventional standard was gonostoma and cyclothone. Sigmops bathyphilus are also known to have a very low amount of chromosomes, 12 pairs to be exact.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Stomiiformes
- Family
- Gonostomatidae
- Genus
- Sigmops