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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Macroramphosus

WoRMS 126222ITIS 551495GBIF 2333512key worms:126222
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2026-08-05: itis_id 551495 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · João Pedro Fernandes Moutinho · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Macroramphosus scolopax

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 Macroramphosus
Photo · Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Macroramphosus, snipefishes or bellowfishes, is a genus of fishes found in tropical and subtropical oceans at depths down to 600 metres (2,000 ft). They have long second spines on their dorsal fins and tiny mouths at the tip of their greatly elongated snouts.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:126222")