- Manefish
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Manefishes Platyberyx opalescens Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Caristiidae Genera and species See text.
Manefishes are perciform fishes in the family Caristiidae. They are deep-sea marine fishes that eat siphonophores.
Genera and species
- Genus Caristius
- Caristius groenlandicus Jensen, 1941.
- Caristius japonicus Gill & Smith, 1905.
- Caristius macropus (Bellotti, 1903).
- Caristius maderensis Maul, 1949.
- Genus Platyberyx
- Platyberyx opalescens Zugmayer, 1911.
- Genus †Chalcidichthys David, 1943.
- †Chalcidichthys malacapterygius David, 1943 extinct species from the Upper Miocene of Southern California.
References
- Deepsea footage of a live manefish, BBC website
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Caristiidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
Categories:- Caristiidae
- Genus Caristius
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