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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ptereleotrinae

Dartfishes

WoRMS 151752ITIS 636573key worms:151752
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2026-08-05: itis_id 636573 via WoRMS external link

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

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 Ptereleotrinae
Photo · Ditch Townsend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Dartfishes are a group of fish, formerly considered to be a subfamily, Ptereleotrinae, of goby-like fishes in the family Microdesmidae of the order Gobiiformes, Authorities now consider the species in the family Microdesmidae are within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this g…W CalCOFI holds 14 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 2002, across 2 taxa under it.R

14
observations
14
records
1990–2002
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:151752")