Ceratioidei
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).
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 is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 8 taxa
- 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
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
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()