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Evermannellidae

Sabertooth Fishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125443ITIS 162535GBIF 7182key worms:125443
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162535 via WoRMS external link

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
Photograph of Evermannellidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 13 obs13 events1955–2002larva
    name used: Evermannellidae Sabertooth Fishes · code 345

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 2 taxa · Evermannella most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Alepisauroidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens · source
  • Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Sabertooth fish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362811531
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

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