Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Paracaristius

WoRMS 270190key worms:270190

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix

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).

BMNH 2002.8.5.713, Caristius maderensis, radiograph — Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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

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 Paracaristius maderensis Manefin38

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:270190")

Paracaristius

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/.