Suborder · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cottoidei

WoRMS 154417ITIS 167185key worms:154417

2026-08-05: itis_id 167185 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ophiodon elongatus

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 Cottoidei — Photo · Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Cottoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes in the order Perciformes. It contains sculpins, snailfish, blobfish, greenlings, and sablefish.W CalCOFI holds 5,120 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 54 taxa under it.R

5,120
observations: 5,120
records: 1951–2023
years: 1
datasets: 39
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 · 10 taxa

F Cottidae Sculpins1,379
F Jordaniidae1,291
F Hexagrammidae Greenlings925
F Zaniolepididae403
F Agonidae Poachers399
F Liparidae snailfishes284
F Hemilepidotidae186
F Anoplopomatidae Sablefishes151
F Cyclopteridae Snailfishes, Lumpsuckers99
F Psychrolutidae fatheads3

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154417")

Cottoidei

Observed in

Under it · 10 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.