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Dorosomatidae

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1618557key worms:1618557

CalCOFI holds 101 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, across 2 taxa under it.R

101
observations
101
records
1951–2006
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
Photograph of Dorosomatidae
Photo · Squidpastry · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Opisthonema most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1618557")

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 2 taxa · Opisthonema most observed
Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Clupeiformes
Credits silhouette · photo
  • Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Ophisthonema oglinum · source
  • Photo · Squidpastry · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
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 ↗