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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chauliodontinae

Viperfishes

WoRMS 154226ITIS 622321key worms:154226
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622321 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

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 Chauliodontinae
Photo · Biodiversity Heritage Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

CalCOFI holds 2,924 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 3 taxa under it.R

2,924
observations
2,924
records
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
2
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 · 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:154226")