Caristiidae
| Caristiidae | |
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| Platyberyx opalescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Caristiidae T. N. Gill & H. M. Smith, 1905[1]
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Caristiidae, the manefishes, are a family of
Chalcidichthys malacapterygius and Absalomichthys velifer are extinct species from the Upper Miocene of Southern California
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Biography
They are
siphonophores. An adult manefish is less than 25 cm in length and most of them are entirely black, which helps camouflage them from predators.[4]
References
- PMID 25543675.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Caristiidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ "Bizarre deep sea manefish filmed". 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- ^ "The Family Manefish Revised Description 2019". Manefish.com. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
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