# Acropomatidae

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{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}}
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| image_caption = ''Synagrops bellus''
| taxon = Acropomatidae
| authority = [T. N. Gill](/source/Theodore_Nicholas_Gill), 1893<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230}}</ref>
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'''Acropomatidae''' is a [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) of [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish) in the [order](/source/order_(biology)) [Acropomatiformes](/source/Acropomatiformes), commonly known as '''lanternbellies'''. ''Acropoma'' species are notable for having [light-emitting organs](/source/bioluminescence) along their undersides. They are found in all temperate and tropical oceans, usually at depths of several hundred meters.<ref name="Fishbase">{{FishBase family|family=Acropomatidae|month=December|year=2019}}</ref> There are about 32 species in as many as 9 genera, although some authorities recognise fewer genera than [Fishbase](/source/Fishbase) does.

Members of the family are generally small, with some ranging up to 40&nbsp;cm, but most no more than 15&nbsp;cm. They have two [dorsal fin](/source/dorsal_fin)s, the first with seven to 10 spines and the second with possibly a spine in addition to eight to 10 soft rays. The [anal fin](/source/anal_fin) has two or three spines, and the [pelvic fin](/source/pelvic_fin)s one spine and five soft rays.

==Timeline of genera==

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==Genera==
The following two genera are currently placed within the family Acropomatidae, based on the ''[Catalog of Fishes](/source/Catalog_of_Fishes)'':

* ''[Acropoma](/source/Acropoma)'' <small>[Temminck](/source/Coenraad_Jacob_Temminck) & [Schlegel](/source/Hermann_Schlegel), 1843</small>
* ''[Doederleinia](/source/Doederleinia)'' <small>[Steindachner](/source/Franz_Steindachner), 1883</small>
The 5th edition of ''[Fishes of the World](/source/Fishes_of_the_World)'' lists seven valid genera, but these have since been moved to other families within the order.<ref name="Nelson5">{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=434 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2020-02-27 |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601121150/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="CofF">{{Cof family|family=Acropomatidae|access-date=29 August 2025}}</ref>

==Taxonomy==
The Acriopomatidae is placed in the [order](/source/Order_(biology)) [Perciformes](/source/Perciformes), the [suborder](/source/suborder) [Percoidei](/source/Percoidei) and the [superfamily](/source/Superfamily_(taxonomy)) [Percoidea](/source/Percoidea) in the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World''.<ref name = Nelson5/> However, during the 21st Century molecular studies have indicated that a variety of mainly deep-sea fishes which were traditionally placed in the Perciformes, including the Acropomatidae, and in the [Trachiniformes](/source/Trachiniformes) in fact from a newly recognised [clade](/source/clade) which has been named either the Acropomatiformes or Pempheriformes.<ref name = Smith>{{cite web | url = https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/conferences.k-state.edu/dist/1/33/files/2018/05/Abstracts-Sacerdote-Velat-Zobek-2n87u6z.pdf | author1 = Leo Smith | author2 = Matthew Davis | author3 = Michael Ghedotti | name-list-style = amp | year = 2018 | publisher = Kansas State University | title = Phylogeny of Enigmatic Acropomatiform Fishes with a Preliminary Assessment of Morphological Support }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Within the Acropomatidae phylogenetic work has suggested that the genera ''Acropoma'' and ''Doederleinia'' are separate from the other genera in the traditional arrangement of the family with two other recognised lineages being placed in the separate families Malakichthyidae and Synagropidae.<ref name = Ghedotti>{{cite journal | author1 = Ghedotti MJ | author2 = Gruber JN | author3 =Barton RW | author4 = Davis MP | author5 = Smith WL | year = 2018 | title = Morphology and evolution of bioluminescent organs in the glowbellies (Percomorpha: Acropomatidae) with comments on the taxonomy and phylogeny of Acropomatiformes | doi = 10.1002/jmor.20894 | journal = Journal of Morphology | volume = 279 | issue = 11 | pages =1640–1653| doi-access = free | pmid = 30368890 }} Abstract</ref>

This classification would be as follows:<ref name = CofFA>{{Cof family|family=Acropmatidae|access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref><ref name = CofFM>{{Cof family|family=Malakichthyidae|access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref><ref name = CofFS>{{Cof family|family=Synagropidae|access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref>

* Acropmatidae
** ''Acropoma''
** ''Doederleinia''
* Malakichthyidae
** ''Apogonops''
** ''Neoscombrops''
** ''Malakichthys''
** ''Verilus''
* Synagropidae
** ''Caraibops''
** ''Kaperangus''
** ''Parascombrops''
** ''Synagrops''

==References==
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