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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Evermannellidae

Sabertooth Fishes

WoRMS 125443ITIS 162535GBIF 7182key worms:125443
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162535 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 Evermannellidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Sabertooth or sabretooth fish are small, deep-sea aulopiform fish comprising the family Evermannellidae. The family is small, with just eight species in three genera represented; they are distributed throughout tropical to subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1955 and 2006, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

101
observations
101
records
13
sampling events
1955–2006
years
1
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 13 obs · 13 events · 1955–2002 · larva
    name used: Evermannellidae Sabertooth Fishes · code 345

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:125443%22