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Creediidae

sandburrowers

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

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

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Crystallodytes most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:151410")

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 2 taxa · Crystallodytes most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Acropomatiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗