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Zaniolepis

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 271274ITIS 167127key worms:271274
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167127 via WoRMS external link

Zaniolepis, the combfishes, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish. It is the only member of the family Zaniolepididae, classified within the suborder Cottoidei of the order Perciformes.W CalCOFI holds 420 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

420
observations
420
records
106
sampling events
1952–2022
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Longspine combfish (Zaniolepis latipinnis) observed off Pt Pinos during a sanctuary seafloor monitoring survey using the Delta submersible.
Photo · Linda Snook / MBNMS · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 106 obs106 events1952–2013larva
    name used: Zaniolepis · code 726

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:271274%22

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 2 taxa · Zaniolepis latipinnis most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Zaniolepididae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · Linda Snook / MBNMS · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Zaniolepis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362847542
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗