Ceratioidei
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164610 via WoRMS external link
Ceratioidei, the pelagic anglerfishes or deep-sea anglerfishes, is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes, one of five suborders in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. These fishes are found in tropical and temperate seas throughout the world, living above the bottom of the deep sea, in the pelagic zone.W CalCOFI holds 660 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2017, across 19 taxa under it.R
- 660
- observations
- 660
- records
- 1959–2017
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 7
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 8 taxa · Oneirodidae 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:154158")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154158'").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 8 taxa · Oneirodidae most observed
- F Oneirodidae Dreamers361
- F Gigantactinidae Whipnoses215
- F Melanocetidae Blackdevils40
- F Ceratiidae Seadevils26
- F Linophrynidae Netdevils9
- F Caulophrynidae fanfins4
- F Centrophrynidae Prickly anglerfishes3
- F Himantolophidae footballfishes2
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Lophiiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Haplophryne mollis · source
- Photo · MARC MARTIN SOLA · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Ceratioidei” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370654451
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗