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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Vinciguerriidae

WoRMS 1848547key worms:1848547
Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

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 Vinciguerriidae
Photo · 陳致維 Chih-Wei Chen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

The Vinciguerriidae, also known as lighthousefishes and stareyes, are a family of mesopelagic marine fish found in deep waters worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 15,503 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 5 taxa under it.R

15,503
observations
15,503
records
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
4
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 · 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:1848547")