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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Aulopiformes

WoRMS 10308ITIS 553127key worms:10308
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553127 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens

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 Aulopiformes
Photo · Clinton & Charles Robertson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 9,011 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 59 taxa under it.R

9,011
observations
9,011
records
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
42
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 · 3 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10308")