Ovalentaria incertae sedis
temporary name the authority does not list this name as accepted; the datasets below still key their observations to it.
Ovalentaria is a clade of ray-finned fishes within the Percomorpha, referred to as a subseries. It is made up of a group of fish families which are referred to in Fishes of the World's fifth edition as incertae sedis, as well as the orders Mugiliformes, Cichliformes, and Blenniiformes.W CalCOFI holds 1,438 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 13 taxa under it.R
- 1,438
- observations
- 1,438
- records
- 1951–2019
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 6
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Pomacentridae most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1517546")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1517546'").df()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 · Pomacentridae most observed
- F Pomacentridae Damselfishes1,435
- F Opistognathidae Jawfishes3
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · text
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Ovalentaria” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354749043
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗