Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chiasmodontidae

Swallowers

WoRMS 125529ITIS 171084GBIF 8520key worms:125529

2026-08-05: itis_id 171084 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 Chiasmodontidae — Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Chiasmodontidae, snaketooth fishes or swallowers, are a family of deep-sea predatory ray-finned fishes, part of the order Scombriformes, that are found in all oceans.W CalCOFI holds 1,191 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 7 taxa under it.R

1,191
observations: 1,191
records: 348
sampling events: 1951–2023
years: 2
datasets: 3
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 348 obs · 348 events · 1951–2006 · larva
name used: Chiasmodontidae Swallowers · code 815

Under it · 3 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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125529%22

Chiasmodontidae

Under it · 3 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.