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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ophidiidae

Cusk-eels

WoRMS 125505ITIS 164807GBIF 8476key worms:125505
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164807 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum

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 Ophidiidae
Photo · NOAA/MBARI, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The cusk-eel family, Ophidiidae, is a group of marine bony fishes in the Ophidiiformes order. The scientific name is from the Greek ophis meaning "snake", and refers to their eel-like appearance.W CalCOFI holds 1,360 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as larva and egg, across 9 taxa under it.R

1,360
observations
1,360
records
51
sampling events
1951–2022
years
2
datasets
6
species under it
larva · egg
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 51 obs · 51 events · 1959–2019 · larva · egg
    name used: Ophidiidae Cusk-eels · code 870

Under it · 2 taxa

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:125505%22