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Caristiidae
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Caristiidae, the manefishes, are a family of scombriform ray-finned fishes which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera.
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It sits within the topics Caristiidae and Percomorpha families.
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Species
manefishes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyCaristiidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 52
- With media
- 20
- Family
- Caristiidae
- Collections
- USNM, MCZ, NMV, YPM, TCWC, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, High Seas, New Caledonia, Japan, Angola, Indonesia, Bermuda
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Scombroidei
- Image
- Platyberyx opalescens.jpg
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- Commons category
- Caristiidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Caristiidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Caristiidae
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Encyclopedic overview
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Caristiidae, the manefishes, are a family of scombriform ray-finned fishes which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera.
== Taxonomy == The following genera are known: Caristius Gill & Smith, 1905 Neocaristius Stevenson & Kenaley, 2011 Paracaristius Trunov, Kukuev & Parin, 2006 Platyberyx Zugmayer, 1911
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caristiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.