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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Istiophoridae

Billfishes

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

Silhouette · Felix Vaux · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kajikia audax

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 Istiophoridae
Photo · Fernando Olea · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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

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 14 obs · 14 events · 1998–2003 · larva
    name used: Istiophoridae Billfishes · code 584

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
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