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Ogcocephalidae

Batfishes

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

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
Photograph of Ogcocephalidae
Photo · Jaime Eduardo García Zúñiga · CC BY 4.0 · 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.

  • 3 obs3 events1992–2002larva
    name used: Ogcocephalidae Batfishes · code 998

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:125495%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 1 taxon
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Ogcocephaloidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
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 ↗