Manefish

Manefishes are perciform fishes in the family Caristiidae, which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera. Chalcidichthys malacapterygius and Absalomichthys velifer are extinct species from the Upper Miocene of Southern California.

Manefishes
Platyberyx opalescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Caristiidae

T. N. Gill & H. M. Smith, 1905
Genera[1]

Biography

They are deep-sea marine fishes[2] that eat siphonophores. The size of an adult Manefish is less than 25 cm in length and most of them are entirely black which help camouflage them from predators.[3]

Timeline
QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneChalcidichthysQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene
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References
  1. Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). "Caristiidae" in FishBase. February 2013 version.
  2. "Bizarre deep sea manefish filmed". 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  3. "The Family Manefish Revised Description 2019". Manefish.com. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2019-07-09.


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