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Gobiesocidae

Clingfishes

WoRMS 125477ITIS 164457GBIF 7668key worms:125477
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164457 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sicyases sanguineus

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 Gobiesocidae
Photo · marlin harms · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Clingfishes are ray-finned fishes of the family Gobiesocidae, the only family in the suborder Gobiesocoidei of the order Blenniiformes. These fairly small to very small fishes are widespread in tropical and temperate regions, mostly near the coast, but a few species live in deeper seas or fresh water.W CalCOFI holds 75 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 2017, as larva, across 7 taxa under it.R

75
observations
75
records
14
sampling events
1952–2017
years
1
datasets
4
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 14 obs · 14 events · 1952–2004 · larva
    name used: Gobiesocidae Clingfishes · code 825

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:125477%22