Caristiidae

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Manefishes
Platyberyx opalescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Caristiidae

Genera[1]

Manefishes are perciform fishes in the family Caristiidae, which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera. They are deep-sea marine fishes that eat siphonophores. Chalcidichthys malacapterygius David, 1943 is an extinct species from the Upper Miocene of Southern California.

Timeline

QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.Plio.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneChalcidichthysQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.Plio.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Caristiidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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