Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gobiiformes

WoRMS 1517500key worms:1517500

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Butis

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 Gobiiformes — Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Gobiiformes is an order of percomorph fish containing three suborders: Apogonoidei, Trichonotoidei, and Gobioidei. The order was formerly defined as containing only the gobies.W CalCOFI holds 3,516 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 25 taxa under it.R

3,516
observations: 3,516
records: 1951–2023
years: 1
datasets: 16
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 · 3 taxa

F Gobiidae Gobies3,350
F Eleotridae Sleepers121
F Microdesmidae Wormfishes45

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1517500")

Gobiiformes

Observed in

Under it · 3 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.