Diplophidae

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1848548key worms:1848548

The Diplophidae or portholefishes are a family of mesopelagic marine stomiiform fish found in deep waters worldwide.W CalCOFI holds 396 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2017, across 2 taxa under it.R

396
observations: 396
records: 1951–2017
years: 1
datasets: 1
species under it

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

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

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 1 taxon

G Diplophos396

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Stomiiformes

Credits silhouette · text

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Diplophidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1328607240

Elsewhere Wikidata · GBIF

Wikidata GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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 ↗