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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Blenniiformes

WoRMS 1517542ITIS 171123GBIF 9314530key worms:1517542
Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes

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).

Schleimfisch (Blennius), Atlantik, Bretagne
Photo · Manuel Werner, Nürtingen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Blennies are a diverse clade of ray-finned fish in the suborder Blennioidei of the percomorph order Blenniiformes. They inhabit marine, brackish, and occasionally freshwater habitats, and generally share similar morphology and behaviour.W CalCOFI holds 3,236 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 33 taxa under it.R

3,236
observations
3,236
records
25
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
19
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
i

One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 25 obs · 25 events · 1951–2012 · larva
    name used: Blennioidei · code 845 synonym

Under it · 5 taxa

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/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1517542%22