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Family ANOPLOPOMATIDAE Sablefishes

Anoplopoma Ayres 1859    anoplos, unarmed; poma, operculum, referring to cheeks (and head) “almost destitute of spines”

Anoplopoma fimbria (Pallas 1814)    fringe or border, allusion not explained, perhaps referring to whitish distal margin sometimes present on second dorsal, caudal and pectoral fins

Erilepis Gill 1894    eri-, very; lepis, scale, referring to small ctenoid scales covering head, body, and soft parts of most of the fins

Erilepis zonifer (Lockington 1880)    zonus, band; fero, to bear, described as having four broad, transverse black stripes on sides between pectoral and caudal fins, with a fifth but narrower band encircling caudal base and two black bands crossing the tail