Phosichthyidae
Lightfishes
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).
Lightfishes are small stomiiform fishes in the family Phosichthyidae They are bioluminescent fishes, possessing rows of photophores along their sides, with which they hunt planktonic invertebrates, especially krill, copepods, and planktonic amphipods.W CalCOFI holds 13 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1963 and 2012, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 13
- observations
- 13
- records
- 2
- sampling events
- 1963–2012
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 1
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed ini
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.
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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.
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name used: Phosichthyidae · code
Phosichthyidae -
name used: Phosichthyidae Lightfishes · code
1140
Under it · 1 taxon
- G Woodsia woodsias11
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125602")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125602'").df()