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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Nomeidae

Flotsamfishes, driftfishes

WoRMS 125548ITIS 172535GBIF 8548key worms:125548
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172535 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nomeus gronovii

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 Nomeidae
Photo · John Sear · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Nomeidae, the driftfishes, are a family of scombriform ray-finned fishes found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world. The family includes about 16 species.W CalCOFI holds 793 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1954 and 2019, as larva, across 11 taxa under it.R

793
observations
793
records
25
sampling events
1954–2019
years
1
datasets
8
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 25 obs · 25 events · 1957–2019 · larva
    name used: Nomeidae Flotsamfishes, driftfishes · code 520

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/.

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:125548%22