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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Centriscidae

snipefishes and shrimpfishes

WoRMS 125605ITIS 166433key worms:125605
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166433 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Centriscops humerosus

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 Centriscidae
Photo · Eridan Xharahi · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Centriscidae are a family of fishes from the order Syngnathiformes which includes the snipefishes, shrimpfishes, and bellowfishes. A small family, consisting of only about over a dozen marine species in two subfamilies, they are of an unusual appearance, as reflected by their common names.W CalCOFI holds 158 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2018.R

158
observations
158
records
1951–2018
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125605")