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Ceratias
Sign in to saveCeratias is a genus of marine ray-finned fish sometimes referred to as the doublewart- or giant seadevils, belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils. The fishes in this genus are found throughout the world's oceans.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderLophiiformes
- FamilyCeratiidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 106
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Ceratiidae
- Collections
- UWFC, CAS, USNM, NHMUK, UF, KU
- Recorded in
- United States, Bermuda, Denmark, Uruguay, Windward Islands
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- Species
- Characteristics
- Distribution and habitat
- References
Ceratias is a genus of marine ray-finned fish sometimes referred to as the doublewart- or giant seadevils, belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty sea devils. The fishes in this genus are found throughout the world's oceans.
==Taxonomy== Ceratias was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1845 by the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer when he described Ceratias holboelli. The type locality of C. holboelli was given as Southern Greenland. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the family Ceratiidae within the suborder Ceratioidei of the anglerfish order Lophiiformes. Within the Ceratioidei this family is a sister taxon to the Centrophrynidae.
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