Carapidae

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Name (Hebrew)
דיריים
Name (Latin)
Carapidae
Name (Arabic)
كارابيدا
Other forms of name
Pearlfishes
See Also From tracing topical name
Ophidiiformes
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q1307559
Library of congress: sh 85020059
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Wikipedia description:

Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. 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 living.

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