Chaenopsidae
Tube Blennies
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171550 via WoRMS external link
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 281 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R
- 281
- observations
- 281
- records
- 2
- sampling events
- 1959–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 3
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Chaenopsidae Tube Blennies · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:151415")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:151415'").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 2 taxa · Neoclinus most observed
- G Neoclinus276
- G Chaenopsis3
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Blenniiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes · source
- Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Chaenopsidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362842961
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗