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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chaetodipterus

WoRMS 159702ITIS 169538key worms:159702
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169538 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Denis Lafage · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dicentrarchus labrax

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 Chaetodipterus
Photo · lightning_whelk · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Chaetodipterus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes. These fishes are found in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 1999.R

5
observations
5
records
1952–1999
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:159702")