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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Paralepididae

Barradcudinas

WoRMS 125447ITIS 162463GBIF 2964key worms:125447
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162463 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 Paralepididae
Photo · andrea_iuli · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 4,894 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 17 taxa under it.R

4,894
observations
4,894
records
1,469
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
11
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 1,469 obs · 1,469 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Paralepididae Barradcudinas · code 310

Under it · 4 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:125447%22