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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sternoptychidae

Hatchetfishes

WoRMS 125603ITIS 162212GBIF 2226key worms:125603
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162212 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sternoptyx pseudobscura

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 Sternoptychidae
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The marine hatchetfishes or deep-sea hatchetfishes as well as the related bottlelights, pearlsides and constellationfishes are small deep-sea ray-finned fish of the stomiiform family Sternoptychidae.W CalCOFI holds 8,224 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 14 taxa under it.R

8,224
observations
8,224
records
988
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
9
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 988 obs · 988 events · 1951–2017 · larva
    name used: Sternoptychidae Hatchetfishes · code 100

Under it · 2 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:125603%22