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Melanocetus
Black seadevils are small, deepsea lophiiform fishes of the family Melanocetidae. The five known species (with only two given common names) are all within the genus Melanocetus. They are found in tropical to temperate waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, with one species known only from the Ross Sea.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Humpback Blackdevil
speciesMelanocetus johnsonii
Deepsea Blackdevil
speciesMelanocetus murrayi
Melanocetus eustalus
speciesMelanocetus eustalus
Melanocetus niger
speciesMelanocetus niger
Melanocetus polyactis
speciesMelanocetus polyactis
Melanocetus rossi
speciesMelanocetus rossi
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 64214.