Derichthyidae

longneck eels

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125428ITIS 161599key worms:125428

2026-08-05: itis_id 161599 via WoRMS external link

Longneck eels or neck eels are a family, Derichthyidae, of eels. They are pelagic fishes, found in the middle and depths of most oceans.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2002.R

2
observations: 2
records: 1959–2002
years: 1
datasets

Photo · David Starr Jordan , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:125428")

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 1 taxon

G Derichthys2

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Anguilliformes

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus · source
Photo · David Starr Jordan , no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Longneck eel” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1256768077

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

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

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