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Stichaeidae

Pricklebacks

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125566ITIS 171554GBIF 8598key worms:125566
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171554 via WoRMS external link

Stichaeidae, the pricklebacks or shannies, are a family of marine ray-finned fishes in the suborder Zoarcoidei of the order Scorpaeniformes. Most species are found in the North Pacific Ocean with a few in the North Atlantic Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 143 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2023, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

143
observations
143
records
105
sampling events
1960–2023
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Stichaeidae
Photo · KJ · 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.

  • 105 obs105 events1960–2023larva
    name used: Stichaeidae Pricklebacks · code 846

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:125566%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 3 taxa · Opisthocentrinae most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Zoarcoidei
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 ↗