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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Creediidae

sandburrowers

WoRMS 151410ITIS 171022key worms:151410
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171022 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Tewara cranwellae

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 Creediidae
Photo · Glen Whisson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The sandburrowers or simply burrowers are a family, Creediidae, of ray-finned fishes in the order Acropomatiformes.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, across 2 taxa under it.R

2
observations
2
records
2002
years
1
datasets
1
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 · 2 taxa

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:151410")