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Myctophiformes

WoRMS 10309ITIS 162368GBIF 1306key worms:10309
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162368 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

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 Myctophiformes
Photo · anonymous · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

The Myctophiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes consisting of two families of deep-sea marine fish, most notably the highly abundant lanternfishes (Myctophidae).W CalCOFI holds 105,678 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 76 taxa under it.R

105,678
observations
105,678
records
4
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
61
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 4 obs · 4 events · 1972–1999 · larva
    name used: Myctophiformes · code 190

Under it · 2 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:10309%22