Ipnopidae

deep-sea tripod fishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125444ITIS 162453key worms:125444

2026-08-05: itis_id 162453 via WoRMS external link

The Ipnopidae are a family of fishes in the order Aulopiformes. They are small, slender fishes, with maximum length ranging from about 10 to 40 cm.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1995 and 1995.R

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observations: 1
records: 1995
years: 1
datasets

Photo · LLophelia II 2010: Oil Seeps and Deep Reefs, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125444")

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 1 taxon

G Bathypterois Tripod fishes1

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 · LLophelia II 2010: Oil Seeps and Deep Reefs, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Ipnopidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1356697375

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

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

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