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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Alepocephalidae

Slickheads

WoRMS 125507ITIS 162303GBIF 8477key worms:125507
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162303 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Alepocephalus productus

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 Alepocephalidae
Photo · Ken Graham · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Slickheads, also known as nakedheads or smoothheads, are deep water fishes that belong to the family Alepocephalidae. They are most commonly found in the bathypelagic layer, which is approximately 3,000 metres (9,840 ft) below the surface.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2010, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

5
observations
5
records
3
sampling events
1951–2010
years
2
datasets
2
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 3 obs · 3 events · 1951–1955 · larva
    name used: Alepocephalidae Slickheads · code 35

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:125507%22