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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chlorophthalmidae

greeneyes

WoRMS 125442ITIS 162427key worms:125442
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162427 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens

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 Chlorophthalmidae
Photo · Edie Widder, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Greeneyes are deep-sea aulopiform marine fishes in the small family Chlorophthalmidae. Thought to have a circumglobal distribution in tropical and temperate waters, the family contains just 18 species in two genera.W CalCOFI holds 7 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2006.R

7
observations
7
records
1972–2006
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125442")