Editing Lancetfish (section)

==Species==
The two currently recognized extant species in this genus are:<ref>{{FishBase genus | genus = Alepisaurus| month = February | year = 2012}}</ref>
* ''[[Alepisaurus brevirostris]]'' <small>[[Robert Henry Gibbs|Gibbs]], 1960</small> (short-snouted lancetfish)
* ''[[Alepisaurus ferox]]'' <small>[[Richard Thomas Lowe|R. T. Lowe]], 1833</small> (long-snouted lancetfish)

The anatomic difference between the two species is the shape of the snout, which is long and pointed in ''A. ferox'', and slightly shorter in ''A. brevirostris''. The long-snouted lancetfish is found in the tropical and northern sub-tropical waters of the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The short-snouted lancetfish lives in the [[Atlantic Ocean]]'s tropics, subtropics, and southern sub-tropics of the Pacific ocean. A third recognized species, ''[[Alepisaurus paronai|A. paronai]]'' <small>D'Erasmo, 1923</small>,<ref name="uyeno">Uyeno, Teruya. "A Miocene alepisauroid fish of a new family, Polymerichthyidae, from Japan." Bull. Nat. Sci. Mus 10 (1967): 383–394.</ref> is a fossil known from Middle Miocene-aged strata from Italy.