Beloniformes
i
2026-08-05: itis_id 553128 via WoRMS external link
Beloniformes is an order composed of six families of freshwater and marine ray-finned fish:Adrianichthyidae Belonidae (needlefish) Exocoetidae (flyingfishes) Hemiramphidae (halfbeaks) Scomberesocidae (sauries) Zenarchopteridae…W CalCOFI holds 9,488 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2022, across 31 taxa under it.R
- 9,488
- observations
- 9,488
- records
- 1951–2022
- years
- 3
- datasets
- 23
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Scomberesocidae 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:10320")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:10320'").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 4 taxa · Scomberesocidae most observed
- F Scomberesocidae Sauries7,558
- F Exocoetidae Flyingfishes1,193
- F Hemiramphidae Halfbeaks734
- F Belonidae Needlefishes3
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · seung9park · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Oryzias latipes · source
- Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Beloniformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354728892
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 ↗