Paracaristius

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 270190key worms:270190

Paracaristius is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Caristiidae, the manefishes. It is a small genus with mostly newly described species.W CalCOFI holds 38 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2019.R

38
observations: 38
records: 1960–2019
years: 1
datasets

Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:270190")

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 1 taxon

sp Paracaristius maderensis Manefin38

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Caristiidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix · source
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Paracaristius” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366508972

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

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 ↗