Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diplophidae

WoRMS 1848548key worms:1848548

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).

The Diplophidae or portholefishes are a family of mesopelagic marine stomiiform fish found in deep waters worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 397 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2017, across 2 taxa under it.R

397
observations: 397
records: 1951–2017
years: 1
datasets: 1
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

G Diplophos397

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1848548")

Diplophidae

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.