#opahs

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Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes

Stomiiformes. This order is made up of deep-sea fishes. It includes dragonfishes, loosejaws, viperfishes, and bristlemouths, the most populated family of vertebrates, with population numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions.

Which clade of animals is better?

Lampriformes

Stomiiformes

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Voting ended onApr 20, 2024

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes

Stylephoriformes. This order is made up of one species of fish, the Stylephorus chordatus or tube-eye, an extremely elongated deep-sea fish.

Which clade of animals is better?

Lampriformes

Stylephoriformes

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Voting ended onMar 9, 2024

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Lampriformes. This order is made up of opahs (also known as moonfish or sunfish) and their relatives, such as oarfish, crestfishes, and ribbonfishes

Zeiformes. This order is made up of mainly deep-sea fishes, including dories.

Which clade of animals is better?

Lampriformes

Zeiformes

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Voting ended onJan 28, 2024

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Opahs (also commonly known as moonfish) are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the small family Lampridae. Its squat body and flimsy-looking pectoral fins may not scream speed-demon, but the opah is actually quite fast, and can run with the big boys like tuna and swordfish. That's just one of many surprising revelations coming to light as more of these mysterious fish appear unexpectedly in scientific surveys along the southern California coast. This unexplained surge is enabling researchers to study and photograph the camera-shy creatures. While documenting a fishing survey, photographer Ralph Pace caught the roughly 130-pound (59-kilogram) fish on camera off the southern California coast in November 2014.