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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Nemichthyidae

Snipe Eels

WoRMS 125432ITIS 161612GBIF 7169key worms:125432
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161612 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 Nemichthyidae
Photo · Barton Warren Evermann, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at depths of 300–600 m (980–1,970 ft) but sometimes as deep as 4,000 m (13,000 ft).W CalCOFI holds 37 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2012, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

37
observations
37
records
2
sampling events
1959–2012
years
2
datasets
3
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 2 obs · 2 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Nemichthyidae Snipe Eels · code 329

Under it · 2 taxa

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:125432%22