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Gobiiformes

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1517500key worms:1517500

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 3,552 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 25 taxa under it.R

3,552
observations
3,552
records
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
16
species under it
Photograph of Gobiiformes
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Gobiidae 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:1517500")

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 3 taxa · Gobiidae most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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 ↗