Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bathylagidae

Blacksmelts

WoRMS 125509ITIS 162080GBIF 4223key worms:125509

2026-08-05: itis_id 162080 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 Bathylagidae — Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The deep-sea smelts are any members of the family Bathylagidae, a distinct group of marine smelts.W CalCOFI holds 30,990 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 12 taxa under it.R

30,990
observations: 30,990
records: 195
sampling events: 1951–2023
years: 2
datasets: 9
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 191 obs · 191 events · 1960–2022 · larva
name used: Bathylagidae Blacksmelts · code 65
Mesopelagic Fish 4 obs · 4 events · 2011
name used: Bathylagidae · code Bathylagidae

Under it · 7 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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125509%22

Bathylagidae

Under it · 7 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.