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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Kathetostoma

WoRMS 159254ITIS 171060key worms:159254
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171060 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Uranoscopus

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 Kathetostoma
Photo · Rebecca Lloyd · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 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:159254")