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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Carapidae

Pearlfishes

WoRMS 125504ITIS 165094GBIF 8475key worms:125504
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165094 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sciadonus cryptophthalmus

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 Carapidae
Photo · Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Pearlfish are marine fish in the ray-finned fish family Carapidae. Pearlfishes inhabit the tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths to 2,000 m (6,600 ft), along oceanic shelves and slopes.W CalCOFI holds 28 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

28
observations
28
records
19
sampling events
1951–2006
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 19 obs · 19 events · 1951–1972 · larva
    name used: Carapidae Pearlfishes · code 875

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:125504%22