Giganturidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
FAMILY

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Chordata: order
Aulopiformes: family
Giganturidae

Name

Synonyms: Rosauridae
Homonyms: Giganturidae
Common names: Giganturids in English; giganturids in English; telescope fishes in English; telescopefishes in English; telescopefishes in English; Гигантуровые in Russian; гигантохвостые in Russian; рыбы-телескопы in Russian; ボウエンギョ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

Baldwin, Carole C., and G. D. Johnson / Stiassny, M. L .J., L. R. Parenti, and G. D. Johnson, eds., 1996: Interrelationships of Aulopiformes. Interrelationships of Fishes. 355-404.
Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
FishBase
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith, 2003: An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
Paxton, J. R., and V. H. Niem / Carpenter, Kent E., and Volker H. Niem, eds., 1999: Giganturidae: Telescope fishes. FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes: The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific, vol. 3: Batoid fishes, chimaeras and Bony fishes, part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). 1954.
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.
Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.