Moringuidae
spaghetti eels
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161136 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, 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:151813")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:151813'").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 1 taxon
- G Neoconger3
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Anguilliformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus · source
- Photo · Smithsonian Institution · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Moringuidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362843713
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗