Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Beryx

WoRMS 125700ITIS 166154key worms:125700

2026-08-05: itis_id 166154 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Beryx splendens

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).

Beryx decadactylus (alfonsino) hovering around a large Lophelia coral. Many fishes use the deep coral habitat in a similar way as fishes in shallow coral systems, and this is a major focus of our rese — Photo · Dr. Ken Sulak, USGS · Public domain · commons

Beryx is a genus of alfonsinos found in deep oceanic waters. Two of its member species, B. decadactylus and B. splendens, are found across nearly the entire globe and are of some commercial importance.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002.R

1
observations: 1
records: 2002
years: 1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

sp Beryx splendens Splendid alfonsino1

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125700")

Beryx

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

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

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