Ceratiidae
Seadevils
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164653 via WoRMS external link
Ceratiidae, the warty seadevils or caruncled seadevils, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Ceratioidei, the deep-sea anglerfishes, in the anglerfish order Lophiiformes.W CalCOFI holds 26 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1962 and 2006, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 26
- observations
- 26
- records
- 1962–2006
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Cryptopsaras most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125487")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125487'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 2 taxa · Cryptopsaras most observed
- G Cryptopsaras15
- G Ceratias11
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Ceratioidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ceratias holboelli · source
- Photo · Gilbert, Charles Henry, 1859-1928; Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Ceratiidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354731803
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗