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Platytroctidae

Tubeshoulders

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125514ITIS 553188GBIF 8481key worms:125514
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553188 via WoRMS external link

The tubeshoulders are a family, Platytroctidae, of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Alepocephaliformes. They are found throughout the world, except for the Mediterranean Sea.W CalCOFI holds 23 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2010 and 2012, across 2 taxa under it.R

23
observations
23
records
2010–2012
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
Photograph of Platytroctidae
Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Sagamichthys most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125514")

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 2 taxa · Sagamichthys most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Alepocephaliformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗