{{Short description|Family of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Early Eocene to Present<ref>{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |date=2002 |url=http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2019-11-14 }}</ref> | image = Scombrops oculatus 01.JPG | image_caption = ''Scombrops oculatus'', Atlantic gnomefish | parent_authority = Gill, 1862<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> | taxon = Scombrops | authority = Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 <ref name = CofF>{{Cof record | genid=1906 | title = Scombrops | access-date=5 November 2020}}</ref> | type_species = ''Scombrops cheilodipteroides'' | type_species_authority = Bleeker, 1853<ref name = CofF/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}

The '''gnomefishes''' form a small family, '''Scombropidae''', consisting of three extant species of marine ray-finned fish in the genus '''''Scombrops'''''. They have two dorsal fins and are notable for scales covering the soft parts of the dorsal and anal fins. The eyes are large. The gnomefish, ''S. boops'', lives in deep rocky areas, down to 400 m. It can grow to 150&nbsp;cm total length and 16&nbsp;kg weight.

''S. gilberti'' occurs in the western Pacific including Japan. The Atlantic scombrops, ''S. oculatus'', is widely found in the subtropical western Atlantic, particularly the Florida and Bahamas area. It is a deepwater fish, caught by anglers between 200 and 610 m.

==Species== The following species are classified within the genus ''Scombrops'':<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus|genus= Scombrops|month=December|year=2019}}</ref>

* ''Scombrops boops'' <small>(Houttuyn, 1782)</small> * ''Scombrops gilberti'' <small>(Jordan & Snyder, 1901)</small> * ''Scombrops oculatus'' <small>(Poey, 1860)</small>

The Scombropidae have been put forward as the sister taxon to the Pempheridae by some authorities.<ref name = TYAN>{{cite journal | author1 = Tadasuke Tsunashima | author2 = Riko Yamada | author3 = Koko Abe | author4 = Shunsuke Noguchi | year = 2015 | title = Phylogenetic position of scombropidae within teleostei: The complete mitochondrial genome of the gnomefish, Scombrops Gilberti | doi = 10.3109/19401736.2015.1063135 | journal = Mitochondrial DNA | volume = 27 | issue = 5 | pages = 1-3}}</ref>

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