Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scopelarchidae

Pearleyes

WoRMS 125448ITIS 162548GBIF 2966key worms:125448

2026-08-05: itis_id 162548 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).

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1986 - 1994: page 114 — Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

The pearleyes are a family, Scopelarchidae, of aulopiform ray-finned fish, distinguished by their unique visual system, with two retinas in each eye.W CalCOFI holds 2,172 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 12 taxa under it.R

2,172
observations: 2,172
records: 439
sampling events: 1951–2023
years: 2
datasets: 9
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 439 obs · 439 events · 1951–2014 · larva
name used: Scopelarchidae Pearleyes · code 335

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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125448%22

Scopelarchidae

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.