Lampriformes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 638685 via WoRMS external link
Lampriformes is an order of ray-finned fishes. Members are commonly known as lampriforms, and include such open-ocean and partially deep-sea Teleostei as the opahs, sailfin velifer, crestfishes, ribbonfishes and oarfishes.W CalCOFI holds 935 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 8 taxa under it.R
- 935
- observations
- 935
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 6
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Trachipteridae 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:10310")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:10310'").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 · Trachipteridae most observed
- F Trachipteridae Ribbonfishes931
- F Radiicephalidae tapertails3
- F Lampridae opah1
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus · source
- Photo · John Barkla · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Lampriformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354727858
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 ↗