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Gobiinae

Subfamilyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 267094key worms:267094

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 1,692 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2023, across 5 taxa under it.R

1,692
observations
1,692
records
1959–2023
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
Photograph of Gobiinae
Photo · Franklin Checa · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 3 taxa · Rhinogobiops most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:267094")

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 3 taxa · Rhinogobiops most observed
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Gobiidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

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 ↗