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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Opistognathidae

Jawfishes

WoRMS 151443ITIS 170920GBIF 8552key worms:151443
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170920 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus

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 Opistognathidae
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Opistognathidae, the jawfishes, are a family of fishes in the order Blenniiformes. The family includes about 80 species.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 1998, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

3
observations
3
records
2
sampling events
1959–1998
years
1
datasets
0
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 · 1992–1998 · larva
    name used: Opistognathidae Jawfishes · code 543

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:151443%22