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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Carapinae

WoRMS 154741ITIS 622721key worms:154741
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622721 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Sciadonus cryptophthalmus

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 Carapinae
Photo · Etrusko25 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Carapinae is a subfamily of pearlfishes, of the family Carapidae. The subfamily consists of five genera:Carapus Rafinesque, 1810 Echiodon Thompson, 1837 Encheliophis Müller, 1842 Eurypleuron Markle & Olney, 1990 Onuxodon J. L. B. Smith, 1955…W CalCOFI holds 9 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2006, across 3 taxa under it.R

9
observations
9
records
1960–2006
years
1
datasets
1
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 · 2 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154741")