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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Howellidae

Pelagic basslets

WoRMS 267023ITIS 641836GBIF 9667key worms:267023
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2026-08-05: itis_id 641836 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Lihao · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lateolabrax maculatus

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 Howellidae
Photo · Ken Graham · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The oceanic basslets are ray-finned fish that belong to the small family Howellidae within the order Acropomatiformes. The family includes about 9 species.W CalCOFI holds 331 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2021, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

331
observations
331
records
1
sampling events
1959–2021
years
2
datasets
2
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Howellidae Pelagic basslets · code 443

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:267023%22