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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Elopidae

Tenpounders

WoRMS 153689ITIS 161109GBIF 3698key worms:153689
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161109 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Megalops cyprinoides

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 Elopidae
Photo · Laura Kushner · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Elopidae are an ancient family of ray-finned fish, one of two living members of the order Elopiformes. They containing a single living genus, Elops, and many extinct genera dating back to the Late Jurassic, when the earliest stem-group elopids are known.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2003.R

1
observations
1
records
2003
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:153689")