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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cetomimidae

Ribbontails

WoRMS 125460ITIS 162785GBIF 7196key worms:125460
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162785 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Beryx splendens

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 Cetomimidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Cetomimidae is a family of small, deep-sea beryciform ray-finned fish. They are among the most deep-living fish known, with some species recorded at depths in excess of 3,500 m (11,500 ft).W CalCOFI holds 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1962 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

19
observations
19
records
6
sampling events
1962–2022
years
1
datasets
1
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 6 obs · 6 events · 1969–1978 · larva
    name used: Mirapinnidae Ribbontails · code 350 synonym id conflict

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125460%22