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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gobiesociformes

WoRMS 10317ITIS 164456key worms:10317
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164456 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sicyases sanguineus

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 Gobiesociformes
Photo · marlin harms · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Clingfishes are ray-finned fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the suborder Gobiesocoidei of the order Blenniiformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species live in deeper seas or fresh water.W CalCOFI holds 75 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 2017, across 7 taxa under it.R

75
observations
75
records
1952–2017
years
1
datasets
4
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 · 1 taxon

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:10317")