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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Atheriniformes

WoRMS 10318ITIS 165429key worms:10318
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165429 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Odontesthes

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 Atheriniformes
Photo · Leo O · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old and New World silversides, the rainbowfishes, and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae. The order includes at least 354 species.W CalCOFI holds 763 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 6 taxa under it.R

763
observations
763
records
1951–2023
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:10318")