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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Agonidae

Poachers

WoRMS 125588ITIS 167426GBIF 8617key worms:125588
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167426 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hemitripterus americanus

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 Agonidae
Photo · Alicia Christman · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Agonidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling, cold-water marine fish. Common names for members of this family include poachers, Irish lords, sea ravens, alligatorfishes, starsnouts, hooknoses, and rockheads.W CalCOFI holds 399 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 9 taxa under it.R

399
observations
399
records
113
sampling events
1951–2022
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 113 obs · 113 events · 1951–1997 · larva
    name used: Agonidae Poachers · code 760

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:125588%22