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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Zeniontidae

WoRMS 826586ITIS 625257key worms:826586
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2026-08-05: itis_id 625257 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cyttus traversi

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 Zeniontidae
Photo · Ken Graham · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Zeniontidae is a family of large, showy, deep-bodied zeiform marine fish. Found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean, the family contains just seven species in three genera.W CalCOFI holds 11 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2001 and 2003.R

11
observations
11
records
2001–2003
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

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:826586")