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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Malacanthidae

Tilefishes

WoRMS 151447ITIS 168537GBIF 8543key worms:151447
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168537 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 Malacanthidae
Photo · uwkwaj · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Tilefishes or sand tilefishes are mostly small percomorph marine fish comprising the family Malacanthidae. They are usually found in sandy, shallow areas, especially near coral reefs.W CalCOFI holds 98 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1954 and 2014, across 2 taxa under it.R

98
observations
98
records
1954–2014
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:151447")