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Alepocephaliformes

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1517449key worms:1517449

CalCOFI holds 28 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2012, across 5 taxa under it.R

28
observations
28
records
1951–2012
years
2
datasets
4
species under it
Photograph of Alepocephaliformes
Photo · Katie S · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Platytroctidae most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1517449")

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 · Platytroctidae most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus · source
  • Photo · Katie S · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
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 ↗