Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Xiphisterinae

WoRMS 267121key worms:267121

Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca

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 Xiphisterinae — Photo · 堀内伸一 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Xiphisterinae is a subfamily of marine ray-finned fishes, classified within the family Stichaeidae, the pricklebacks or shannies. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

4
observations: 4
records: 1987–2022
years: 1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

G Anoplarchus4

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:267121")

Xiphisterinae

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.