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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Centrolophidae

Medusafishes

WoRMS 125526ITIS 172508GBIF 8515key worms:125526
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172508 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix

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 Centrolophidae
Photo · Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of scombriform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 31 species.W CalCOFI holds 2,459 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023.R

2,459
observations
2,459
records
1951–2023
years
2
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

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:125526")