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Batrachoididae

Toadfishes

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

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

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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

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

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
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Batrachoidiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Batrachoides surinamensis · source
  • Photo · Eugene Willis Gudger · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Batrachoididae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354728847
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 ↗