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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Stomiiformes

WoRMS 10306ITIS 553138GBIF 774key worms:10306
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553138 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

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 Stomiiformes
Photo · Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology. It includes, for example, dragonfishes, lightfishes, loosejaws, marine hatchetfishes and viperfishes.W CalCOFI holds 45,599 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 69 taxa under it.R

45,599
observations
45,599
records
150
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
40
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 150 obs · 150 events · 1952–2006 · larva
    name used: Stomiiformes · code 109

Under it · 8 taxa

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:10306%22