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Blenniidae

Combtooth Blennies

WoRMS 125519ITIS 171124GBIF 4251key worms:125519
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171124 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes

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 Blenniidae
Photo · Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Combtooth blennies are blenniiformids; percomorph marine fish of the family Blenniidae, part of the order Blenniiformes. They are the largest family of blennies with around 401 known species in 58 genera.W CalCOFI holds 2,494 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 11 taxa under it.R

2,494
observations
2,494
records
6
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
7
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 6 obs · 6 events · 1972–2003 · larva
    name used: Blenniidae Combtooth Blennies · code 850

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125519%22