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Ceratias
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Ceratias

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.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Longray Seadevil

speciesCeratias holbolli

Stargazing Seadevil

speciesCeratias uranoscopus

Southern Seadevil

speciesCeratias tentaculatus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 64219.