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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Stomiidae

Dragonfishes

WoRMS 125604ITIS 162282GBIF 2225key worms:125604
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162282 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

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 Stomiidae
Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Stomiidae is a family of deep-sea ray-finned fish, including the barbeled dragonfishes, that live in all oceans in a wide range of depths. They are quite small, ranging around 15 to 26 centimetres long, and they exhibit a strong sexual dimorphism.W CalCOFI holds 9,522 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 28 taxa under it.R

9,522
observations
9,522
records
97
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
13
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 94 obs · 94 events · 1959–2022 · larva
    name used: Stomiidae Dragonfishes · code 1150
  • Mesopelagic Fish 3 obs · 3 events · 2011
    name used: Stomiidae · code Stomiidae

Under it · 6 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:125604%22