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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Melanostomiinae

Scaleless dragonfishes

WoRMS 154229ITIS 622318key worms:154229
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622318 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).

CalCOFI holds 827 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 10 taxa under it.R

827
observations
827
records
60
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
5
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
i

One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 60 obs · 60 events · 1962–2016 · larva
    name used: Melanostomiinae Scaleless dragonfishes · code 130

Under it · 5 taxa

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:154229%22