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Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ceratioidei

WoRMS 154158ITIS 164610key worms:154158
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164610 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Haplophryne mollis

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 Ceratioidei
Photo · MARC MARTIN SOLA · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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

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:154158")