Centrolophidae

Medusafishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125526ITIS 172508GBIF 8515key worms:125526

2026-08-05: itis_id 172508 via WoRMS external link

Medusafishes are a family, Centrolophidae, of scombriform ray-finned fishes. The family includes about 31 species.W CalCOFI holds 2,468 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023.R

2,468
observations: 2,468
records: 1951–2023
years: 2
datasets

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:125526")

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 1 taxon

G Icichthys2,468

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Scombriformes

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix · source
Photo · Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Medusafish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366292148

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

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 ↗