The gnomefishes are a small family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Scombropidae of marine fish

Fish

Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

, consisting of three species in the genus Scombrops.

They have two dorsal fin

Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of various unrelated marine and freshwater vertebrates, including most fishes, marine mammals , and the ichthyosaurs...

s and are notable for scales covering the soft parts of the dorsal and anal fins. The eyes are large.

The gnomefish, Scombrops boops, lives in deep rocky areas, down to 400 m. It can grow to 150 cm total length and 16 kg weight.

Scombrops gilberti occurs in the western Pacific including Japan.

The Atlantic scombrops, Scombrops oculatus, is widely found in the subtropical western Atlantic, particularly the Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

 and Bahamas area. It is a deepwater fish, caught by anglers between 200 and 610 m.