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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Atherinopsidae

Silversides

WoRMS 266995ITIS 630579GBIF 2957key worms:266995
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2026-08-05: itis_id 630579 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Odontesthes

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 Atherinopsidae
Photo · Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The neotropical silversides are a family, Atherinopsidae, of fishes in the order Atheriniformes. About 112 species in 13 genera are distributed throughout the tropical and temperate waters of the New World, including both marine and freshwater habitats.W CalCOFI holds 763 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

763
observations
763
records
38
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 38 obs · 38 events · 1951–2003 · larva
    name used: Atherinopsidae Silversides · code 470

Under it · 2 taxa

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:266995%22