Opisthoproctidae
Spookfishes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162099 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Dolichopteryx most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125512")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125512'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 3 taxa · Dolichopteryx most observed
- G Dolichopteryx winged spookfish7
- G Macropinna2
- G Bathylychnops1
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Argentiniformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Winteria telescopa · source
- Photo · Kim Reisenbichler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Barreleye” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355115968
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗