Manefish
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Manefishes are perciform fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

es in the family Caristiidae. They are deep-sea marine fishes that eat siphonophores.

Genera and species

  • Genus Caristius
    • Caristius groenlandicus Jensen, 1941.
    • Caristius japonicus Gill
      Theodore Gill
      Theodore Nicholas Gill was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J...

       & Smith, 1905
      .
    • Caristius macropus (Bellotti, 1903).
    • Caristius maderensis Maul, 1949.
  • Genus Platyberyx
    • Platyberyx opalescens Zugmayer
      Erich Zugmayer
      Erich Johann Georg Zugmayer was an Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist-Species described by Zugmayer:* Benthalbella infans Zugmayer, 1911* Cetostoma regani Zugmayer, 1914...

      , 1911
      .
  • Genus †Chalcidichthys
    Chalcidichthys
    Chalcidichthys malacapterygius is an extinct, prehistoric manefish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch of Southern California. It is assumed to have preyed on siphonophores, like its living relatives.-See also:* Prehistoric fish...

    David, 1943.
    • Chalcidichthys malacapterygius David, 1943 extinct species from the Upper Miocene
      Miocene
      The Miocene is a geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about . The Miocene was named by Sir Charles Lyell. Its name comes from the Greek words and and means "less recent" because it has 18% fewer modern sea invertebrates than the Pliocene. The Miocene follows the Oligocene...

       of Southern California
      Southern California
      Southern California is a megaregion, or megapolitan area, in the southern area of the U.S. state of California. Large urban areas include Greater Los Angeles and Greater San Diego. The urban area stretches along the coast from Ventura through the Southland and Inland Empire to San Diego...

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