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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Opisthoproctidae

Spookfishes

WoRMS 125512ITIS 162099GBIF 4226key worms:125512
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162099 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Winteria telescopa

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 Opisthoproctidae
Photo · Kim Reisenbichler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Barreleyes, also known as spookfish, are small deep-sea argentiniform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1969 and 2006, across 4 taxa under it.R

10
observations
10
records
1969–2006
years
1
datasets
3
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 · 3 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125512")