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Acropomatiformes

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1517567key worms:1517567

The Acropomatiformes or Pempheriformes are an order of fish from the group of perch relatives Percomorpha. The relationship of the families assigned to the Acropomatiformes is based on molecular biological studies and is not yet supported by morphological characteristics.W CalCOFI holds 338 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2021, across 9 taxa under it.R

338
observations
338
records
1959–2021
years
2
datasets
3
species under it
Photograph of Acropomatiformes
Photo · Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 5 taxa · Howellidae most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1517567")

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 5 taxa · Howellidae most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata

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 ↗