Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Beryciformes

Cetomimidae Goode & Bean, 1895

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Megalomycteridae*		synonym
*Mirapinnidae*		synonym

Children

Ataxolepis Myers & Freihofer, 1966
Cetomimus Goode & Bean, 1895
Cetostoma Zugmayer, 1914
Ditropichthys Parr, 1934
Eutaeniophorus Bertelsen & Marshall, 1958
Mirapinna Bertelsen & Marshall, 1956
Parataeniophorus Bertelsen & Marshall, 1956

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: flabby whalefishes sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

Japanese: クジラウオ科

Literature

original description	Goode, G. B.; Bean, T. H. (1895). On Cetomimidae and Rondeletiidae, two new families of bathybial fishes from the northwestern Atlantic. In: Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. v. 17 (no. 1012): 451-454, Pl. 17.
basis of record	van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	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.
taxonomy source	Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.

Genbank

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cetomimidae Goode & Bean, 1895. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125460