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Family of ray-finned fishes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caristiidae, the manefishes, are a family of scombriform ray-finned fishes which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera. Chalcidichthys malacapterygius and Absalomichthys velifer are extinct species in this family from the Upper Miocene of Southern California.
| Caristiidae | |
|---|---|
| |
| Platyberyx opalescens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scombriformes |
| Suborder: | Scombroidei |
| Family: | Caristiidae T. N. Gill & H. M. Smith, 1905[1] |
| Genera[2] | |
They are deep-sea marine fishes found in the mesopelagic zone [3] that eat 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]
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