Stomiiformes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553138 via WoRMS external link
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 45,714 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 69 taxa under it.R
- 45,714
- observations
- 45,714
- records
- 150
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 40
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Stomiiformes · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10306")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:10306'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 8 taxa · Vinciguerriidae most observed
- F Vinciguerriidae15,532
- F Gonostomatidae Bristlemouths11,206
- F Stomiidae Dragonfishes9,541
- F Sternoptychidae Hatchetfishes8,270
- F Ichthyococcidae604
- F Diplophidae396
- F Phosichthyidae Lightfishes13
- F Yarrellidae2
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger · source
- Photo · Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Stomiiformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354728720
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗