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Tomopteridae

POLYCHAETA TOMOPTERIDAE

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 958ITIS 65459key worms:958
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2026-08-05: itis_id 65459 via WoRMS external link

Tomopteridae is a family of holopelagic polychaetes belonging to the order Phyllodocida. The genus Tomopteris consist of about 70 species, and the three other genera of one known species each.W CalCOFI holds 575 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2021.R

575
observations
1,005
records
335
sampling events
1951–2021
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Tomopteridae
Photo · uwe kils · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

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.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the ZooDB (Holoplankton Community) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/cce-lter_zoodb.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:958%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, 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).

Lineage 7 ranks · Biota to Phyllodocida incertae sedis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
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, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗