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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Macroramphosinae

Snipefishes

WoRMS 154403ITIS 644846GBIF 4286325key worms:154403
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2026-08-05: itis_id 644846 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Notopogon lilliei

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 Macroramphosinae
Photo · Rino · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Macroramphosinae, the snipefishes and bellowsfishes is a subfamily of oviparous, marine fish which form part of the superfamily Centriscoidea, which is one of the three superfamilies in the suborder Syngnathoidei of the order Syngnathiformes, which includes the seahorses, pipefishes, trumpetfishes and dragonets.W CalCOFI holds 158 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2018.R

158
observations
158
records
1951–2018
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:154403")