CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem
Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ophichthidae

Snake Eels

WoRMS 125434ITIS 161419GBIF 2955key worms:125434
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 161419 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 Ophichthidae
Photo · Ewout Knoester · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Ophichthidae is a family of fish in the order Anguilliformes, commonly known as the snake eels. The term "Ophichthidae" comes from Greek ophis ("serpent") and ichthys ("fish").W CalCOFI holds 75 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

75
observations
75
records
30
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
i

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 30 obs · 30 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Ophichthidae Snake Eels · code 375

Under it · 2 taxa

Ways in
i

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:125434%22