Macroramphosus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 551495 via WoRMS external link
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 159 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2018.R
- 159
- observations
- 159
- records
- 1951–2018
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126222")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126222'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Macroramphosus gracilis Slender snipefish159
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Macroramphosinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · João Pedro Fernandes Moutinho · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Macroramphosus scolopax · source
- Photo · Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Macroramphosus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1302455334
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗