Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lophiiformes

WoRMS 10316ITIS 164495GBIF 1305key worms:10316

2026-08-05: itis_id 164495 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaunax pictus

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 Lophiiformes — Photo · Dan Schofield · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The anglerfish are ray-finned fish in the order Lophiiformes. Both the order's common and scientific name comes from the characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified dorsal fin ray acts as a lure for prey.W CalCOFI holds 755 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2017, as larva, across 27 taxa under it.R

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observations: 755
records: 74
sampling events: 1951–2017
years: 1
datasets: 11
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 74 obs · 74 events · 1951–2003 · larva
name used: Lophiiformes · code 971
name used: Ogcocephalioidei · code 990 synonym id conflict

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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:10316%22

Lophiiformes

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.