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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gobiinae

WoRMS 267094key worms:267094
Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gobiinae

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 Gobiinae
Photo · Franklin Checa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

True gobies were a subfamily, the Gobiinae, of the goby family Gobiidae, although the 5th edition of the Fishes of the World does not subdivide the Gobiidae into subfamilies. They are found in all oceans and a few rivers and lakes, but most live in warm waters.W CalCOFI holds 1,659 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2023, across 5 taxa under it.R

1,659
observations
1,659
records
1959–2023
years
1
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 · 3 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:267094")