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Teleostei

Unidentified Teliost

WoRMS 293496ITIS 161105key worms:293496
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161105 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus

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).

Lateral views of Pinecone Soldierfish head (left) and the upper jaw of a prehistoric fish (right). mx = maxillary, pmx = premaxillary, smx. = supramaxillaries.
Photo · C.Tate Regan (text) · Public domain · commons

Teleostei, members of which are known as teleosts, is, by far, the largest group of ray-finned fishes, with 96% of all extant species of fish.W CalCOFI holds 525,381 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as egg and larva, across 921 taxa under it.R

525,381
observations
716,244
records
111,014
sampling events
1951–2023
years
3
datasets
572
species under it
egg · larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 72,797 obs · 61,442 events · 1951–2023 · egg · larva
    name used: Teleostei Unidentified Teliost · code 1
  • CUFES Fish Eggs 49,572 obs · 49,572 events · 1996–2022 · egg
    name used: Teleostei · code teleostei

Under it · 42 taxa

12 more, fewer observations each

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:293496%22