Girellinae

Subfamilyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 151776ITIS 645322key worms:151776

2026-08-05: itis_id 645322 via WoRMS external link

Girellidae is a family of ray-finned fish in the order Centrarchiformes. They may be referred to as nibblers.W CalCOFI holds 221 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022.R

221
observations: 221
records: 1951–2022
years: 1
datasets

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Microcanthus strigatus

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:151776")

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 1 taxon

G Girella221

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Kyphosidae

Credits silhouette · text

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Microcanthus strigatus · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Girellidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1277987136

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

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