Sternoptychinae
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).
Marine hatchetfishes or deep-sea hatchetfishes are small deep-sea mesopelagic ray-finned fish of the stomiiform subfamily Sternoptychinae. They should not be confused with the freshwater hatchetfishes, which are not particularly closely related Teleostei in the characiform family Gasteropelecidae.W CalCOFI holds 5,721 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023, across 8 taxa under it.R
- 5,721
- observations
- 5,721
- records
- 1959–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 6
- species under it
Observed in
Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.
Under it · 2 taxa
- G Argyropelecus4,244
- G Sternoptyx Dollar hatchetfishes1,477
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154225")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154225'").df()