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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Clinidae

Kelpfishes

WoRMS 125530ITIS 171396GBIF 4261key worms:125530
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171396 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 Clinidae
Photo · Stefanie · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Clinidae is a family of marine fish in the order Blenniiformes within the series Ovalentaria, part of the Percomorpha. Temperate blennies, the family ranges from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres.W CalCOFI holds 207 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2017, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

207
observations
207
records
167
sampling events
1951–2017
years
1
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 167 obs · 167 events · 1951–1984 · larva
    name used: Clinidae Kelpfishes · code 840

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:125530%22