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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chlopsidae

False Moray

WoRMS 125426ITIS 553181GBIF 2950key worms:125426
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553181 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

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 Chlopsidae
Photo · WorldFish Center - FishBase · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Chlopsidae, or false morays, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels. The eels in this family are found in coral reefs worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2003, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

8
observations
8
records
1
sampling events
1972–2003
years
1
datasets
0
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2003 · larva
    name used: Chlopsidae False Moray · code 1005

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125426%22