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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Platytroctidae

Tubeshoulders

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

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus

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 Platytroctidae
Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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