Gonostomatidae
Bristlemouths
i
2026-08-05: itis_id 162163 via WoRMS external link
The Gonostomatidae are a family of mesopelagic marine fish, commonly named bristlemouths or anglemouths. Their common name, bristlemouth, comes from their odd, equally sized, and bristle-like teeth.W CalCOFI holds 11,206 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 14 taxa under it.R
- 11,206
- observations
- 11,206
- records
- 133
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 10
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
i
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.
-
name used: Gonostomatidae Bristlemouths · code
75
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125601")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125601'").df()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 4 taxa · Cyclothone most observed
- G Cyclothone10,895
- G Gonostoma85
- G Sigmops85
- G Margrethia8
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Stomiiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger · source
- Photo · Tylwyth Eldar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Gonostomatidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1358446501
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗