Sternoptychinae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622315 via WoRMS external link
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 5,753 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023, across 8 taxa under it.R
- 5,753
- observations
- 5,753
- records
- 1959–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 6
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Argyropelecus most observed, 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:154225")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154225'").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 2 taxa · Argyropelecus most observed
- G Argyropelecus4,273
- G Sternoptyx Dollar hatchetfishes1,480
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Sternoptychidae
Credits silhouette · text
- Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sternoptyx pseudobscura · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Marine hatchetfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1336814800
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗