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Family: Lasaeidae (See list of species below)

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177 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)

No picture found Altenaeum gibbosum []	No picture found Altenaeum mabillei []	No picture found Arthritica bifurca []
No picture found Arthritica crassiformis []	No picture found Arthritica hulmei []	No picture found Barrimysia cumingii []
No picture found Barrimysia siphonosomae []	No picture found Boreacola maltzani [Arctic montacutid]	No picture found Bornia geoffroyi []
No picture found Bornia sebetia []	No picture found Bornia tacaguana []	No picture found Borniola bidentifera []
No picture found Borniola decapitata []	No picture found Borniola neozelanica []	No picture found Borniola pasca []
No picture found Borniola powelli []	No picture found Borniola profunda []	No picture found Borniola quadrata []
No picture found Borniola reniformis []	No picture found Borniola taieriensis []	No picture found Borniopsis ariakensis []
No picture found Borniopsis tsurumaru []	No picture found Borniopsis yamakawai []	No picture found Callomysia revimentalis []
No picture found Coracuta obliquata []	No picture found Curvemysella paula []	No picture found Curvemysella sibogai []
No picture found Devonia perrieri [Leptosynapta montacutid]	No picture found Entovalva semperi []	No picture found Epilepton clarkiae []
No picture found Epilepton parrussetensis []	No picture found Erycina emmonsi [Rectangular erycina]	No picture found Erycina fernandina []
No picture found Erycina linella [Lined erycina]	No picture found Erycina periscopiana [Periscope erycina]	No picture found Fronsella fujitaniana []
No picture found Hemilepton nitidum [Shining lepton]	No picture found Hemilepton solidulum []	No picture found Hyalokellia tahaia []
No picture found Kellia bullata []	No picture found Kellia cycladiformis []	No picture found Kellia japonica []
No picture found Kellia leucedra []	No picture found Kellia minima []	No picture found Kellia porculus []
No picture found Kellia simulans []	No picture found Kellia suborbicularis [Suborbicular kellyclam]	No picture found Kelliola symmetros []
No picture found Kelliopsis elevata [Eastern aligena]	No picture found Kelliopsis jozinae []	No picture found Kelliopsis laterodentata []
No picture found Kelliopsis texasiana [Texas aligena]	No picture found Kurtiella bidentata []	No picture found Kurtiella ovata []
No picture found Kurtiella pellucida []	No picture found Kurtiella thielei []	No picture found Kurtiella tumidula []
No picture found Lasaea adansoni [Reddish lepton]	No picture found Lasaea australis []	No picture found Lasaea cistula []
No picture found Lasaea consanguinea []	No picture found Lasaea eastera []	No picture found Lasaea hawaiiensis []
No picture found Lasaea hinemoa []	No picture found Lasaea macrodon []	No picture found Lasaea maoria []
No picture found Lasaea nipponica []	No picture found Lasaea parengaensis []	No picture found Lasaea petitiana []
No picture found Lasaea rubra []	No picture found Lasaea subviridis []	No picture found Lasaea undulata []
No picture found Lepton lepidum [Graceful lepton]	No picture found Lepton squamosum []	No picture found Lepton substrigonum []
No picture found Litigiella bouryi []	No picture found Litigiella corgani []	No picture found Litigiella glabra []
No picture found Mancikellia pumila []	No picture found Melliteryx parva []	No picture found Melliteryx puncticulata []
No picture found Mioerycina coarctata []	No picture found Montacuta cruzensis []	No picture found Montacuta dawsoni []
No picture found Montacuta donacina []	No picture found Montacuta echinocardiophila []	No picture found Montacuta goudi []
No picture found Montacuta limpida []	No picture found Montacuta minuscula []	No picture found Montacuta nimrodiana []
No picture found Montacuta percompressa [Much-compressed montacutid]	No picture found Montacuta semiradiata []	No picture found Montacuta spitzbergensis []
No picture found Montacuta substriata [Substriated montacuta]	No picture found Montacuta voeringi []	No picture found Myllita stowei []
No picture found Myllitella vivens []	No picture found Myllitella vivens pinguis []	No picture found Mysella aleutica []
No picture found Mysella alpha []	No picture found Mysella antarctica []	No picture found Mysella arthuri []
No picture found Mysella beringensis []	No picture found Mysella beta []	No picture found Mysella casta [Pure mysella]
Mysella charcoti []	No picture found Mysella compacta []	No picture found Mysella compressa []
No picture found Mysella dawsoni []	No picture found Mysella golischi []	No picture found Mysella grebnitzkii []
No picture found Mysella grippi []	No picture found Mysella henryi []	No picture found Mysella hounselli []
No picture found Mysella lachlani []	No picture found Mysella larochei []	No picture found Mysella macquariensis []
No picture found Mysella minuscula []	No picture found Mysella moelleri [Dirty mysella]	No picture found Mysella morioria []
No picture found Mysella mutsuwanensis []	No picture found Mysella ovata [Ovate mysella]	No picture found Mysella pedroana [San Pedro mysella]
No picture found Mysella planata [Flat mysella]	No picture found Mysella planulata [Plate mysella]	No picture found Mysella sculpta []
No picture found Mysella striatula [Scratched mysella]	No picture found Mysella subquadrata []	No picture found Mysella tellinula []
No picture found Mysella triangularis []	No picture found Mysella triquetra [Triangular mysella]	No picture found Mysella tumida []
No picture found Mysella tumidula []	No picture found Mysella unidentata []	No picture found Neaeromya compressa [Compressed montacutid]
Neaeromya rugifera [Wrinkled montacutid]	No picture found Nesobornia bulla []	No picture found Nipponomysella oblongata []
No picture found Orobitella floridana [Giant montacutid]	No picture found Orobitella limpida [Limpid montacutid]	No picture found Parabornia palliopapillata []
No picture found Parabornia squillina [Squillaclam]	No picture found Paraborniola matsumotoi []	No picture found Peregrinamor ohshimai []
Pseudokellya cardiformis []	No picture found Pseudokellya franki []	No picture found Pseudokellya gradata []
No picture found Pseudokellya inexpectata []	No picture found Pseudopythina macandrewi []	No picture found Pseudopythina macrophthalmensis []
No picture found Pseudopythina maipoensis []	No picture found Pseudopythina nodosa []	No picture found Pseudopythina ochetostomae []
No picture found Pseudopythina subsinuata []	No picture found Pythinella cuneata [Cuneate montacutid]	No picture found Radobornia bryani []
No picture found Rhamphidonta retifera [Netted kellyclam]	No picture found Rochefortia compressa [Compressed mysella]	No picture found Rochefortia grippi [Elliptical mysella]
No picture found Rochefortia tumida [Robust mysella]	No picture found Scacchia oblonga []	No picture found Scacchia rodriguesensis []
No picture found Tellimya benthicola []	No picture found Tellimya ferruginosa []	No picture found Tellimya pauciradiata []
No picture found Tellimya phascolionis []	No picture found Tellimya reinga []	No picture found Tellimya semirubra []
No picture found Tellimya tahaia []	No picture found Tellimya tenella []	No picture found Tellimya vitrea aupouria []
No picture found Thecodonta rainesi []	No picture found Thecodonta sieboldi []	No picture found Thecodonta sieboldii []
No picture found Waldo arthuri []	Waldo parasiticus []	No picture found Waldo trapezialis []

177 Species of Family Lasaeidae
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Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)
Altenaeum gibbosum		Antarctic	0.4 SHL
Altenaeum mabillei		Southeast Pacific, Southw	0.18 DL
Arthritica bifurca		Southwest Pacific
Arthritica crassiformis		Southwest Pacific
Arthritica hulmei		Southwest Pacific
Barrimysia cumingii		Western Pacific
Barrimysia siphonosomae		Northwest Pacific
Boreacola maltzani	Arctic montacutid	Arctic and Northeast Atla
Bornia geoffroyi		Mediterranean Sea
Bornia sebetia		Mediterranean Sea
Bornia tacaguana		Western Atlantic.
Borniola bidentifera		Southwest Pacific
Borniola decapitata		Southwest Pacific
Borniola neozelanica		Southwest Pacific
Borniola pasca		Southeast Pacific	0.35 SHL
Borniola powelli		Southwest Pacific
Borniola profunda		Southwest Pacific
Borniola quadrata		Southwest Pacific
Borniola reniformis		Southwest Pacific
Borniola taieriensis		Southwest Pacific
Borniopsis ariakensis		Northwest Pacific
Borniopsis tsurumaru		Western Pacific.
Borniopsis yamakawai		Western Pacific.
Callomysia revimentalis		Western Indian Ocean
Coracuta obliquata		Mediterranean Sea.
Curvemysella paula		Indo-West Pacific.
Curvemysella sibogai		Northwest Pacific
Devonia perrieri	Leptosynapta montacutid	Mediterranean Sea	0.5 DL
Entovalva semperi		Western Pacific
Epilepton clarkiae		Mediterranean Sea
Epilepton parrussetensis		Mediterranean Sea.
Erycina emmonsi	Rectangular erycina	North America.	0.7 DL
Erycina fernandina		Western Atlantic.	0.4 DL
Erycina linella	Lined erycina	Western Central Atlantic.	0.46 DL
Erycina periscopiana	Periscope erycina	Western Central Atlantic.	0.5 DL
Fronsella fujitaniana		Northwest Pacific
Hemilepton nitidum	Shining lepton	Mediterranean Sea.
Hemilepton solidulum		Mediterranean Sea.
Hyalokellia tahaia		Southeast Pacific	0.5 SHL
Kellia bullata		Southeast Pacific and Wes	0.8 DL
Kellia cycladiformis		Southwest Pacific
Kellia japonica		Northwest Pacific.
Kellia leucedra		Western Indian Ocean
Kellia minima		Southwest Pacific
Kellia porculus		Western Pacific.
Kellia simulans		Southeast Pacific and Ant
Kellia suborbicularis	Suborbicular kellyclam	Eastern Pacific, Western	1.3 SHL
Kelliola symmetros		Northern Atlantic and the
Kelliopsis elevata	Eastern aligena	Northwest Atlantic	0.6 DL
Kelliopsis jozinae		Mediterranean Sea.
Kelliopsis laterodentata		Western Atlantic.	0.85 DL
Kelliopsis texasiana	Texas aligena	Western Central Atlantic	0.5 DL
Kurtiella bidentata		Western Indian Ocean, Nor
Kurtiella ovata		Mediterranean Sea.
Kurtiella pellucida		Mediterranean Sea.
Kurtiella thielei		Antarctica.
Kurtiella tumidula		Mediterranean Sea.
Lasaea adansoni	Reddish lepton	Eastern Pacific, Atlantic	0.3 SHL
Lasaea australis		Eastern Indian Ocean
Lasaea cistula		Northeast Atlantic
Lasaea consanguinea		Antarctica.
Lasaea eastera		Southeast Pacific
Lasaea hawaiiensis		Eastern Pacific	0.6 SHL
Lasaea hinemoa		Southwest Pacific
Lasaea macrodon		Southeast Pacific
Lasaea maoria		Southwest Pacific
Lasaea nipponica		Western Pacific.
Lasaea parengaensis		Southwest Pacific
Lasaea petitiana		Southeast Pacific
Lasaea rubra		Northeast Atlantic, Medit
Lasaea subviridis		Northeast Atlantic
Lasaea undulata		Pacific Ocean.
Lepton lepidum	Graceful lepton	Western Central Atlantic
Lepton squamosum		Mediterranean Sea
Lepton substrigonum		Mediterranean Sea.
Litigiella bouryi		Western Atlantic.	0.8 DL
Litigiella corgani		Mediterranean Sea.
Litigiella glabra		Mediterranean Sea
Mancikellia pumila		Mediterranean Sea
Melliteryx parva		Southwest Pacific
Melliteryx puncticulata		Northwest Pacific.
Mioerycina coarctata		Mediterranean Sea.
Montacuta cruzensis		Western Atlantic.	0.78 DL
Montacuta dawsoni		Northern Atlantic and the
Montacuta donacina		Northeast Atlantic
Montacuta echinocardiophila		Northwest Pacific
Montacuta goudi		Mediterranean Sea.
Montacuta limpida		Northeast Atlantic
Montacuta minuscula		Northeast Atlantic	0.27 DL
Montacuta nimrodiana		Antarctica Pacific	0.8 SHL
Montacuta percompressa	Much-compressed montacutid	East Pacific and Northeas	0.4 DL
Montacuta semiradiata		Southwest Pacific
Montacuta spitzbergensis		Arctic, Northeast Atlanti	0.84 SHL
Montacuta substriata	Substriated montacuta	Northeast Atlantic and th
Montacuta voeringi		Northeast Atlantic and th
Myllita stowei		Southwest Pacific
Myllitella vivens		Southwest Pacific
Myllitella vivens pinguis		Southwest Pacific
Mysella aleutica		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella alpha		Southwest Pacific
Mysella antarctica		Southeast Pacific and Ant
Mysella arthuri		Western Atlantic.	0.3 DL
Mysella beringensis		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella beta		Southwest Pacific
Mysella casta	Pure mysella	Northeast Atlantic
Mysella charcoti		Southern Ocean.	0.2 SHL
Mysella compacta		Western Pacific
Mysella compressa		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella dawsoni		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella golischi		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella grebnitzkii		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella grippi		Northeast Atlantic
Mysella henryi		Southwest Pacific
Mysella hounselli		Southwest Pacific
Mysella lachlani		Southwest Pacific
Mysella larochei		Southwest Pacific
Mysella macquariensis		Southwest Pacific
Mysella minuscula		Southeast Pacific and Ant	0.22 DL
Mysella moelleri	Dirty mysella	Northeast Atlantic	0.6 DL
Mysella morioria		Southwest Pacific
Mysella mutsuwanensis		Western Pacific
Mysella ovata	Ovate mysella	Northeast Atlantic
Mysella pedroana	San Pedro mysella	East Pacific and Northeas
Mysella planata	Flat mysella	Northern Pacific, Northea
Mysella planulata	Plate mysella	Atlantic Ocean.	0.2 DL
Mysella sculpta		Southeast Pacific
Mysella striatula	Scratched mysella	Northeast Atlantic
Mysella subquadrata		Southwest Pacific
Mysella tellinula		Southwest Pacific
Mysella triangularis		Western Pacific.
Mysella triquetra	Triangular mysella	Northeast Atlantic
Mysella tumida		Eastern Pacific, Atlantic
Mysella tumidula		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mysella unidentata		Southwest Pacific
Neaeromya compressa	Compressed montacutid	East Pacific.
Neaeromya rugifera	Wrinkled montacutid	Arctic, Eastern and North	5 SHL
Nesobornia bulla		Northwest Pacific
Nipponomysella oblongata		Northwest Pacific
Orobitella floridana	Giant montacutid	Western Central Atlantic.	1.6 DL
Orobitella limpida	Limpid montacutid	Western Central Atlantic	0.3 DL
Parabornia palliopapillata		Western Atlantic.	0.6 DL
Parabornia squillina	Squillaclam	Western Central Atlantic.	0.748 DL
Paraborniola matsumotoi		Northwest Pacific
Peregrinamor ohshimai		Northwest Pacific
Pseudokellya cardiformis		Antarctic and Southern Pa	0.7 SHL
Pseudokellya franki		Western Atlantic.
Pseudokellya gradata		Antarctic Atlantic	0.51 DL
Pseudokellya inexpectata		Atlantic Ocean.
Pseudopythina macandrewi		Mediterranean Sea.
Pseudopythina macrophthalmensis		Northwest Pacific
Pseudopythina maipoensis		Northwest Pacific
Pseudopythina nodosa		Western Pacific
Pseudopythina ochetostomae		Western Pacific
Pseudopythina subsinuata		Western Pacific
Pythinella cuneata	Cuneate montacutid	Western Atlantic	0.3 DL
Radobornia bryani		Pacific Ocean.
Rhamphidonta retifera	Netted kellyclam	Northeast Pacific.	1.5 SHL
Rochefortia compressa	Compressed mysella	East Pacific.
Rochefortia grippi	Elliptical mysella	East Pacific.
Rochefortia tumida	Robust mysella	Northeast Pacific.	0.5 SHL
Scacchia oblonga		Mediterranean Sea
Scacchia rodriguesensis		Western Indian Ocean	0.3 SHL
Tellimya benthicola		Southwest Pacific
Tellimya ferruginosa		Northeast Atlantic and th	1 SHL
Tellimya pauciradiata		Southeast Pacific	0.88 SHL
Tellimya phascolionis		Mediterranean Sea
Tellimya reinga		Southwest Pacific
Tellimya semirubra		Mediterranean Sea
Tellimya tahaia		Southeast Pacific	0.7 SHL
Tellimya tenella		Mediterranean Sea
Tellimya vitrea aupouria		Southwest Pacific
Thecodonta rainesi		Southeast Pacific	0.37 SHL
Thecodonta sieboldi		Northwest Pacific
Thecodonta sieboldii		Northwest Pacific
Waldo arthuri		Eastern Pacific
Waldo parasiticus		Southeast Pacific, Southw	0.41 DL
Waldo trapezialis		Southwest Atlantic and An	0.29 DL

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