Ateleopodiformes - Jellynose fishes

Classification

Order: Ateleopodiformes - Jellynose fishes

Description

The jellynose fishes or tadpole fishes are the small order Ateleopodiformes. This group of ray-finned fish is monotypic, containing a single family Ateleopodidae. It has about a dozen species in four genera, but these enigmatic fishes are in need of taxonomic revision.

Families