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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Batrachoididae

Toadfishes

WoRMS 125450ITIS 164412GBIF 7187key worms:125450
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164412 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Batrachoides surinamensis

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).

From an instantaneous photograph of free-swimming young toadfish in water Subject: Toadfishes Tag: Fish
Photo · Eugene Willis Gudger · Public domain · commons

Batrachoididae is the only family in the ray-finned fish order Batrachoidiformes. Members of this family are usually called toadfish or frogfish: both the English common name and scientific name refer to their toad-like appearance.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 1969.R

5
observations
5
records
1951–1969
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125450")