family myctophidae

English Thesaurus

1. deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	fish family,
definition	:	any of various families of fish (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	lanternfish,
definition	:	small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	isospondyli, order isospondyli,
definition	:	most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon (noun.animal)