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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chaenopsidae

Tube Blennies

WoRMS 151415ITIS 171550GBIF 8516key worms:151415
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171550 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes

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 Chaenopsidae
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The blennioid family Chaenopsidae includes the pike-blennies, tube-blennies, and flagblennies, all percomorph marine fish in the order Blenniiformes. The family is strictly tropical, ranging from North to South America.W CalCOFI holds 280 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

280
observations
280
records
2
sampling events
1959–2022
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 1969–1978 · larva
    name used: Chaenopsidae Tube Blennies · code 823

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:151415%22