Manefish
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| Manefishes | |
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| Platyberyx opalescens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Caristiidae |
| Genera and species | |
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Manefishes are perciform fishes in the family Caristiidae. They are deep-sea marine fishes that eat siphonophores.
[edit] 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.
[edit] References
- Deepsea footage of a live manefish, BBC website
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Caristiidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
