Centrarchiformes
Centrarchiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, previously included amongst the perciformes. The order Centrarchiformes is not recognized in the 5th Edition (2016) of Fishes of the World, but is accepted on the World Register of Marine Species in November 2023, Fishbase, and Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.W CalCOFI holds 689 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, across 8 taxa under it.R
- 689
- observations
- 689
- records
- 1951–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 4
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Scorpididae 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:1517557")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1517557'").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 4 taxa · Scorpididae most observed
- F Scorpididae386
- F Kyphosidae Sea Chubs297
- F Cirrhitidae Hawkfishes4
- F Cheilodactylidae morwongs2
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Timothy Bartley · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Micropterus dolomieu · source
- Photo · Lennart Hudel · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Centrarchiformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362679354
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗