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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ceratiidae

Seadevils

WoRMS 125487ITIS 164653GBIF 8050key worms:125487
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164653 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ceratias holboelli

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Ceratiidae
Photo · Gilbert, Charles Henry, 1859-1928; Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125487")