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Nettastomatidae

Duckbill Eels

WoRMS 125433ITIS 161301GBIF 2954key worms:125433
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161301 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 Nettastomatidae
Photo · Ken Graham · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Nettastomatidae, from Ancient Greek νῆττα (nêtta), meaning "duck", and στόμα (stóma), meaning "mouth", are a family of eels known as the duckbill eels or witch eels.W CalCOFI holds 12 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2003, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

12
observations
12
records
4
sampling events
1960–2003
years
1
datasets
2
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 4 obs · 4 events · 1960–2003 · larva
    name used: Nettastomatidae Duckbill Eels · code 356

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:125433%22