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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ophidiiformes

WoRMS 10314ITIS 553139GBIF 1308key worms:10314
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553139 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sciadonus cryptophthalmus

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 Ophidiiformes
Photo · NOAA/MBARI, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Ophidiiformes is an order of ray-finned fish that includes the cusk-eels, pearlfishes, viviparous brotulas, and others. Members of this order have small heads and long slender bodies.W CalCOFI holds 2,457 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 19 taxa under it.R

2,457
observations
2,457
records
483
sampling events
1951–2022
years
2
datasets
10
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 483 obs · 483 events · 1951–2003 · larva
    name used: Ophidiiformes · code 869

Under it · 4 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:10314%22