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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Neoscopelidae

blackchins

WoRMS 125499ITIS 162772key worms:125499
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162772 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

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 Neoscopelidae
Photo · NOAA Photo Library, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The Neoscopelidae are a small family of deep-sea fish closely related to the lanternfish. They are found in tropical and subtropical marine waters worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 18 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2006, across 2 taxa under it.R

18
observations
18
records
1988–2006
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125499")