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Paralepididae

Barradcudinas

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125447ITIS 162463GBIF 2964key worms:125447
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162463 via WoRMS external link

Barracudinas are any member of the marine mesopelagic fish family Paralepididae: 50 or so extant species are found almost worldwide in deep waters. Several genera, including Holosteus and Drimys, are known only from fossils dating back to the Ypresian epoch.W CalCOFI holds 4,917 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 17 taxa under it.R

4,917
observations
4,917
records
1,471
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
11
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Paralepididae
Photo · andrea_iuli · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 1,471 obs1,471 events1951–2023larva
    name used: Paralepididae Barradcudinas · code 310

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:125447%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 4 taxa · Lestidiops 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
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

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗