Polyipnus asteroides

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| genus = Polyipnus

| species = asteroides

| authority = Schultz, 1938 {{cite WoRMS |author=Bailly, Nicolas |year=2015 |title=Polyipnus asteroides Schultz, 1938 |id=158839 |accessdate=28 February 2016|db=}}

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Polyipnus asteroides, commonly known as the shortspine tenplate, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Sternoptychidae. It occurs in deep water in the western Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Maine southward to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It occurs to a depth of about {{convert|500|m|-2}}.