Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Argentiniformes

WoRMS 1321884key worms:1321884

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Alepocephalus productus

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 Argentiniformes — Photo · Kim Reisenbichler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

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 35,579 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 24 taxa under it.R

35,579
observations: 35,579
records: 1951–2023
years: 2
datasets: 16
species under it

Observed in

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

Under it · 4 taxa

F Bathylagidae Blacksmelts30,990
F Microstomatidae pencil smelts2,869
F Argentinidae Argentines1,710
F Opisthoproctidae Spookfishes10

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1321884")

Argentiniformes

Observed in

Under it · 4 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.