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Microdesmidae

Wormfishes

WoRMS 151423ITIS 172161GBIF 8544key worms:151423
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172161 via WoRMS external link

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

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 Microdesmidae
Photo · Harry Rosenthal · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Microdesmidae, the wormfishes and dartfishes, were a family of goby-like fishes in the order Gobiiformes, more recent workers have placed this taxon within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family.W CalCOFI holds 45 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, as larva, across 8 taxa under it.R

45
observations
45
records
6
sampling events
1951–2006
years
1
datasets
4
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 6 obs · 6 events · 1951–2000 · larva
    name used: Microdesmidae Wormfishes · code 844

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:151423%22