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Stylephoridae

tube-eye

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125482ITIS 166358key worms:125482
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166358 via WoRMS external link

Stylephoridae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes. It is the only family in the suborder Stylephoroidei and, depending on its classification, the order Stylephoriformes.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2003.R

2
observations
2
records
2002–2003
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Stylephoridae
Photo · Bloch, Marcus Elieser; Hennig, J. F.; Schneider, Johann Gottlob, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

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:125482")

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 Stylephoriformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Stylephorus chordatus · source
  • Photo · Bloch, Marcus Elieser; Hennig, J. F.; Schneider, Johann Gottlob, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Stylephoridae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372298979
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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

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