''Platyberyx'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

manefish Caristiidae, the manefishes, are a family of perciform fishes which today includes 19 extant species distributed in four genera. '' Chalcidichthys malacapterygius'' and ''Absalomichthys velifer'' are extinct species from the Upper Miocene of Sout ...

es native to the eastern

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Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * '' Platyberyx mauli'' Kukuev, Parin & Trunov, 2012Kukuev, E.I., Parin, N.V. & Trunov, I.A. (2012): Materials for the Revision of the Family Caristiidae (Perciformes). 2. Manefishes from the East Atlantic (Redescription of ''Platyberyx opalescens'' Zugmayer and Description of Two New Species ''Platyberyx mauli'' sp. n. and ''Caristius andriashevi'' sp. n.). ''Journal of Ichthyology, 52 (3): 185-199.'' * '' Platyberyx opalescens'' Zugmayer, 1911 * '' Platyberyx paucus''

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& Kenaley, 2013Stevenson, D.E. & Kenaley, C.P. (2013): Revision of the Manefish Genera ''Caristius'' and ''Platyberyx'' (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Caristiidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species. ''Copeia, 2013 (3): 415-434.'' * '' Platyberyx pietschi''

& Kenaley, 2013 * '' Platyberyx rhyton''

& Kenaley, 2013

References

Caristiidae {{Perciformes-stub