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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Centrarchiformes

WoRMS 1517557key worms:1517557
Silhouette · Timothy Bartley · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Micropterus dolomieu

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 Centrarchiformes
Photo · Lennart Hudel · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 688 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, across 8 taxa under it.R

688
observations
688
records
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
4
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 · 4 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:1517557")