Opisthocentrinae

Subfamilyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 267123key worms:267123

Opisthocentridae, the rearspined fin pricklebacks, is a family of marine ray-finned fishes, classified within the suborder Zoarcoidei. These fishes are found in the North Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 32 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2016.R

32
observations: 32
records: 1960–2016
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS · Public domain · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:267123")

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 1 taxon

G Plectobranchus32

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Stichaeidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
Photo · Steve Lonhart / NOAA MBNMS · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Opisthocentridae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1363114484

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 ↗