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Trachipteridae

Ribbonfishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125483ITIS 166339GBIF 7675key worms:125483
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166339 via WoRMS external link

The ribbonfish are any lampriform fishes in the family Trachipteridae. There are about 10 recognized species in the family.W CalCOFI holds 931 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

931
observations
931
records
253
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Trachipteridae
Photo · NOAA/NMFS, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 253 obs253 events1951–1984larva
    name used: Trachipteridae Ribbonfishes · code 380

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125483%22

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 3 taxa · Trachipterus most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Lampriformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus · source
  • Photo · NOAA/NMFS, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Ribbonfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355280782
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 ↗