Melamphaes

Classification

Genus: Melamphaes
Family: Melamphaidae - Bigscale fishes or ridgeheads
Order: Beryciformes - Sawbellies
Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes

Species

Slender bigscale
(Melamphaes acanthomus)

Melamphaes microps

Melamphaes nikolayi

Melamphaes occlusus

Melamphaes pachystomus

Melamphaes papavereus

Melamphaes parini

Little bigscale
(Melamphaes parvus)

Melamphaes polylepis

Melamphaes proximus

Melamphaes pumilus

Ridgehead
(Melamphaes simus)

Melamphaes spinifer

Shoulderspine bigscale
(Melamphaes suborbitalis)

Melamphaes succedaneus

Melamphaes typhlops

Melamphaes manifestus

Melamphaes macrocephalus

Melamphaes contradictorius

Bigscale
(Melamphaes danae)

Melamphaes ebelingi

Melamphaes eulepis

Melamphaes falsidicus

Melamphaes hubbsi

Melamphaes inconspicuus

Melamphaes indicus

Melamphaes janae

Melamphaes kobylyanskyi

Melamphaes laeviceps

Melamphaes lentiginosus

Melamphaes leprus

Eyebrow bigscale
(Melamphaes longivelis)

Highsnout melamphid
(Melamphaes lugubris)

Melamphaes xestoachidus

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