Aulopiformes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553127 via WoRMS external link
Aulopiformes is a diverse order of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families with about 45 genera and over 230 species. The common names grinners, lizardfishes and allies, or aulopiforms are sometimes used for this group.W CalCOFI holds 9,047 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 59 taxa under it.R
- 9,047
- observations
- 9,047
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 42
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Alepisauroidei most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10308")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:10308'").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 3 taxa · Alepisauroidei most observed
- sO Alepisauroidei7,842
- sO Synodontoidei1,179
- sO Aulopoidei26
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens · source
- Photo · Clinton & Charles Robertson · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Aulopiformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1367463652
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗