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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Microdesminae

WoRMS 151793ITIS 636572key worms:151793
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2026-08-05: itis_id 636572 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Microdesminae

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 Microdesminae
Photo · Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Wormfishes were a subfamily, Microdesminae, which are formerly classified in the family Microdesmidae and are also currently classified, with no intervening rank, in the family Gobiidae and the order Gobiiformes.W CalCOFI holds 25 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, across 5 taxa under it.R

25
observations
25
records
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
3
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:151793")