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Ephippidae

Spadefishes

WoRMS 151426ITIS 553178GBIF 4271key worms:151426
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553178 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Denis Lafage · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dicentrarchus labrax

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 Ephippidae
Photo · Ewout Knoester · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Ephippidae is a family of percomorph fishes in the suborder Moronoidei of the order Acanthuriformes. These fishes, commonly known as spadefishes, are found in the tropical and temperate oceans of the world, except for the central Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 7 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 2000, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

7
observations
7
records
2
sampling events
1952–2000
years
1
datasets
1
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 · 2000 · larva
    name used: Ephippidae Spadefishes · code 615

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:151426%22