Microdesminae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 636572 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Microdesmus 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:151793")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:151793'").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 · Microdesmus most observed
- G Microdesmus19
- G Gunnellichthys3
- G Clarkichthys2
- G Cerdale Wormfish1
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Microdesmidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Microdesminae · source
- Photo · Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Wormfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355283037
Elsewhere 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 ↗