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Gigaclass · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Actinopterygii

ray-finned fishes

WoRMS 10194ITIS 161061key worms:10194
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161061 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Palaeoniscum freieslebeni

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Actinopterygii
Photo · Dan Schofield · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Actinopterygii, members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that constitutes nearly 99% of the over 30,000 living species of fish.W CalCOFI holds 525,381 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 921 taxa under it.R

525,381
observations
716,244
records
1951–2023
years
3
datasets
572
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10194")