Cottoidei
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167185 via WoRMS external link
Cottoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes in the order Perciformes. It contains sculpins, snailfish, blobfish, greenlings, and sablefish.W CalCOFI holds 5,191 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 54 taxa under it.R
- 5,191
- observations
- 5,191
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 39
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 10 taxa · Cottidae 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:154417")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154417'").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 10 taxa · Cottidae most observed
- F Cottidae Sculpins1,405
- F Jordaniidae1,298
- F Hexagrammidae Greenlings931
- F Zaniolepididae420
- F Agonidae Poachers411
- F Liparidae snailfishes287
- F Hemilepidotidae186
- F Anoplopomatidae Sablefishes151
- F Cyclopteridae Snailfishes, Lumpsuckers99
- F Psychrolutidae fatheads3
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Perciformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ophiodon elongatus · source
- Photo · Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cottoidei” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354745678
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 ↗