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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Polynemidae

Threadfins

WoRMS 125551ITIS 170445GBIF 8592key worms:125551
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170445 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus

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 Polynemidae
Photo · Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Threadfins are silvery grey ray-finned fish of the family Polynemidae. Found in tropical to subtropical waters throughout the world, the threadfin family contains nine genera and about 40 species.W CalCOFI holds 83 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

83
observations
83
records
1
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
2
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 1 obs · 1 events · 1966 · larva
    name used: Polynemidae Threadfins · code 490

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:125551%22