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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ogcocephalidae

Batfishes

WoRMS 125495ITIS 164573GBIF 4215key worms:125495
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164573 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ogcocephalus darwini

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 Ogcocephalidae
Photo · Jaime Eduardo García Zúñiga · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Ogcocephalidae is a family of anglerfish specifically adapted for a benthic lifestyle of crawling about on the seafloor. Ogcocephalid anglerfish are sometimes referred to as batfishes, deep-sea batfishes, handfishes, and seabats.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1992 and 2002, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

4
observations
4
records
3
sampling events
1992–2002
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 3 obs · 3 events · 1992–2002 · larva
    name used: Ogcocephalidae Batfishes · code 998

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:125495%22