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Order · temporary name · checked 2026-08-05

Ovalentaria incertae sedis

temporary name the authority does not list this name as accepted; the datasets below still key their observations to it.

WoRMS 1517546key worms:1517546
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus

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).

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 1,432 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, across 13 taxa under it.R

1,432
observations
1,432
records
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
6
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 · 2 taxa

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:1517546")