Manefish
| Manefishes | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Platyberyx opalescens | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Caristiidae T. N. Gill & H. M. Smith, 1905 |
| 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
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Caristiidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
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