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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pomacentridae

Damselfishes

WoRMS 125553ITIS 170044GBIF 4499key worms:125553
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170044 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Corrine Avidan · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chromis viridis

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 Pomacentridae
Photo · Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Pomacentridae is a family of ray-finned fish, comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes. This family were formerly placed in the order Perciformes or as indeterminate percomorphs, but are now considered basal blenniiforms.W CalCOFI holds 1,429 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as larva, across 11 taxa under it.R

1,429
observations
1,429
records
119
sampling events
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
6
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 119 obs · 119 events · 1954–2006 · larva
    name used: Pomacentridae Damselfishes · code 625

Under it · 6 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:125553%22