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Istiophoridae

Billfishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125539ITIS 172486GBIF 9670key worms:125539
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172486 via WoRMS external link

Marlins are fish from the family Istiophoridae, which includes between 9 and 11 species, depending on the taxonomic authority.W CalCOFI holds 22 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2003, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

22
observations
22
records
14
sampling events
1989–2003
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Istiophoridae
Photo · Fernando Olea · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 14 obs14 events1998–2003larva
    name used: Istiophoridae Billfishes · code 584

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125539%22

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
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Carangiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗