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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Valenciennellus

WoRMS 126200ITIS 162202key worms:126200
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162202 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).

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1986 - 1994: page 55
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Valenciennellus is a genus of marine hatchetfishes. They are commonly known as constellationfishes.W CalCOFI holds 76 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1962 and 2016.R

76
observations
76
records
1962–2016
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:126200")