(Cape to Saldanha Bay) Cape scorpionfish, Trachyscorpia capensis (Cape to St Helena Bay) Family: Tetrarogidae – waspfishes Smoothskin scorpionfish, Coccotropsis gymnoderma (Gilchrist, 1906) (Cape to Algoa bay)(Cape Peninsula to Algoa Bay) Family: Triglidae – gurnards Cape gurnard, Chelidonichthys capensis (Cuvier, 1829) (Cape Fria to Maputo) Bluefin gurnard, Chelidonichthys kumu (Cuvier, 1829) (Cape Point to Delagoa Bay)(West coast of Cape Peninsula to Algoa Bay, also Indo-west Pacific) Lesser gurnard, Chelidonichthys queketti (Regan, 1904) (Table Bay to Natal) Order Siluriformes – catfishes Family Ariidae – sea catfishes Black seacatfish, Galeichthys ater Castelnau, 1861 (south coast to Port Alfred) White seacatfish, Galeichthys feliceps Valenciennes, 1840 (Walvis Bay to Natal) Order Stomiiformes Family Gonostomatidae – bristlemouths Cyclothone acclinidens Garman, 1899 (off Cape Point; tropical/subtropical in all 3 major oceans) Veiled anglemouth, Cyclothone microdon (Günther, 1878) (Saldanha Bay to Mossel Bay; all 3 major oceans) Bicolored bristlemouth, tan bristlemouth Cyclothone pallida Brauer, 1902 (all 3 major oceans) Diplophos rebainsi Krefft and Parin, 1972 (off south western Cape coast; southern Atlantic and south-eastern Pacific Oceans) Diplophos taenia Günther, 1873 (all 3 major oceans; all around SA coast) Gonostoma denudatum Rafineque, 1810 (Temperate/subtropical Atlantic; off southern Africa to ca. 37°S) Sigmops bathyphilus (Vaillant, 1884), syn. Gonostoma bathyphilum (off Cape Point; temperate/subtropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans) Family Phosichthyidae – lightfishes Ichthyococcus australis Mukhacheva, 1980 (circumglobal in subtropical convergence region of southern hemisphere with records between 30° and 40°S in Atlantic sector of our region) Slender lightfish Vinciguerria attenuata (Cocco, 1838) (off Cape Point; all 3 major oceans) Family Sternoptychidae – hatchetfishes Muller's pearlsides, Maurolicus muelleri (Gmelin, 1788) (all oceans, more common in colder regions) Valenciennellus tripunctulatus (Esmark, 1871), syn. Valenciennellus tripunctatus (all oceans, tropical, subtropical and temperate waters) Atlantic silver hatchetfish, longspine silver hatchetfish, Argyropelecus aculeatus Valenciennes, 1849 (worldwide in tropical and temperate seas) Greater silver hatchetfish, Argyropelecus gigas Norman, 1930 (southeast of Cape of Good Hope; Indian Ocean to 40°S and south Atlantic to 38°S) Short silver hatchetfishArgyropelecus hemigymnus Cocco, 1829 (worldwide distribution, common in SA waters to 35°S) Transparent hatchetfish, Sternoptyx diaphana Hermann, 1781 (worldwide in tropical and temperate seas) Sternoptyx pseudodiaphana Borodulina, 1977 (Indian Ocean south of 35°S; circumglobal in Southern Ocean; Benguela current) Family: Stomiidae Astronesthes boulengeri Gilchrist, 1902 (southeast of Cape Point, circumpolar between 30° and 40°S) Astronesthes indicus Brauer, 1902 (circumglobal in tropical waters, taken between 33° and 35°S on Atlantic side) Bathophilus digitatus (Welsh, 1923) (single specimen from off Cape Town;