Microdesmidae
Wormfishes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172161 via WoRMS external link
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 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: Microdesmidae Wormfishes · 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:151423")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:151423'").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 · Microdesminae most observed
- sF Microdesminae25
- sF Ptereleotrinae Dartfishes14
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 Gobiiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gobiidae · source
- Photo · Harry Rosenthal · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Microdesmidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355283060
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 ↗