Other common names include Pacific oarfish, king of herrings, ribbonfish, and streamer fish. Benthic varieties include the marine jewfish, croakers, grunters, snappers, groupers, ribbonfish and pomfrets. There was also a stuffed ribbonfish, of a species a few metres in length. Other common names include donkey fish and lance-shaped ribbonfish. The ribbonfish are any lampriform fishes in the family Trachipteridae. Ribbonfish possess all the characteristics of fish living at very great depths.