Argentiniformes
The Argentiniformes is an order of marine ray-finned fish whose distinctness was recognized only fairly recently. In former times, they were included in the Osmeriformes as suborder Argentinoidei.W CalCOFI holds 35,988 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 25 taxa under it.R
- 35,988
- observations
- 35,988
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 3
- datasets
- 16
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Bathylagidae most observed, 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:1321884")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1321884'").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 4 taxa · Bathylagidae most observed
- F Bathylagidae Blacksmelts31,373
- F Microstomatidae pencil smelts2,884
- F Argentinidae Argentines1,721
- F Opisthoproctidae Spookfishes10
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Alepocephalus productus · source
- Photo · Kim Reisenbichler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Argentiniformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354742104
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗