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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Trachipteridae

Ribbonfishes

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

Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus

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 Trachipteridae
Photo · NOAA/NMFS, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The ribbonfish are any lampriform fishes in the family Trachipteridae. There are about 10 recognized species in the family.W CalCOFI holds 928 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

928
observations
928
records
253
sampling events
1951–2023
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 253 obs · 253 events · 1951–1984 · larva
    name used: Trachipteridae Ribbonfishes · code 380

Under it · 3 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:125483%22