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Eleotridae

Sleepers

WoRMS 151420ITIS 172171GBIF 4268key worms:151420
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172171 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Eleotridae

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 Eleotridae
Photo · Whispers of Aqua · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Eleotridae is a family of fish commonly known as sleeper gobies, with about 34 genera and 180 species. Most species are found in the tropical Indo-Pacific region, but there are also species in subtropical and temperate regions, warmer parts of the Americas and near the Atlantic coast in Africa.W CalCOFI holds 121 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

121
observations
121
records
106
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
2
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 106 obs · 106 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Eleotridae Sleepers · code 807

Under it · 1 taxon

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:151420%22