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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Giganturidae

telescopefishes

WoRMS 151854ITIS 162820key worms:151854
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162820 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens

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 Giganturidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Telescopefish are small, deep-sea aulopiform fish classified in the small family Giganturidae. Telescopefish can be found at the depths of 2000 meters under water.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002.R

1
observations
1
records
2002
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:151854")