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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Moringuidae

spaghetti eels

WoRMS 151813ITIS 161136key worms:151813
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161136 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

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 Moringuidae
Photo · Smithsonian Institution · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

The Moringuidae are a small family of eels commonly known as spaghetti eels or worm eels, although the latter name is also shared with other families of eels.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2000 and 2000.R

3
observations
3
records
2000
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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:151813")