Kathetostoma
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171060 via WoRMS external link
Kathetostoma is a genus of bony fish from the family Uranoscopidae, the stargazers. They are demersal predators which are found in the western Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, with most species around Australia and New Zealand.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1962 and 1962.R
- 1
- observations
- 1
- records
- 1962
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, 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:159254")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:159254'").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 1 taxon
- sp Kathetostoma averruncus smooth stargazer1
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Uranoscopidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Uranoscopus · source
- Photo · Rebecca Lloyd · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Kathetostoma” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354680136
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗