Pearlfishes
Carapidae
Pearlfish are marine fish in the Carapidae family of ray-finned fishes. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths to 2,000 m (6,600 ft), along oceanic shelves and slopes. They are slender, elongated fish with no scales, translucent bodies, and dorsal fin rays which are shorter than their anal fin rays. Adults of most species live symbiotically inside various invertebrate hosts, and some live parasitically inside sea cucumbers. The larvae are free...
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 37 known species
Carapinae
subfamilyCarapinae
Pyramodontinae
subfamilyPyramodontinae
Hypopleuroninae
subfamilyHypopleuroninae
Tetragondacninae
subfamilyTetragondacninae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 85658.