Myctophidae
Lanternfishes
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).
Lanternfish are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae. One of two families in the order Myctophiformes, the Myctophidae are represented by 246 species in 33 genera, and are found in oceans worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 105,656 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 73 taxa under it.R
- 105,656
- observations
- 105,656
- records
- 4,657
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 60
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed ini
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.
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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.
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name used: Myctophidae Lanternfishes · code
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name used: Myctophidae · code
Myctophidae
Under it · 5 taxa
- sF Lampanyctinae52,002
- sF Myctophinae43,264
- sF Diaphinae4,119
- sF Gymnoscopelinae1,055
- sF Notolychninae559
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125498")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125498'").df()