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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Zeiformes

WoRMS 10919ITIS 166271key worms:10919
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166271 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyttus traversi

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 Zeiformes
Photo · Daniel Benák · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Zeiformes are a small order of exclusively marine ray-finned fishes most notable for the dories, a group of common food fish. The order consists of about 33 species in six extant families, mostly deep-sea types.W CalCOFI holds 11 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2003.R

11
observations
11
records
2001–2003
years
1
datasets

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:10919")