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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Holocentridae

Squirrelfishes

WoRMS 125458ITIS 166170GBIF 7195key worms:125458
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166170 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Holocentridae

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 Holocentridae
Photo · David R · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Holocentridae is a family of beryciform ray-finned fish, the only family of the suborder Holocentroidei. The members of the subfamily Holocentrinae are typically known as squirrelfish, while the members of Myripristinae typically are known as soldierfish.W CalCOFI holds 29 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2006, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

29
observations
29
records
4
sampling events
1987–2006
years
1
datasets
2
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 4 obs · 4 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Holocentridae Squirrelfishes · code 413

Under it · 2 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:125458%22