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Cyematidae

Bobtail Eels

WoRMS 125583ITIS 161630GBIF 5088key worms:125583
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161630 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

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 Cyematidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Cyema is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the monotypic family Cyematidae. The only species in the genus is Cyema atrum, the arrow eel, bobtail eel, bobtail snipe eel or deepwater eel.W CalCOFI holds 29 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2014, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

29
observations
29
records
7
sampling events
1959–2014
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
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 7 obs · 7 events · 1969–2012 · larva
    name used: Cyematidae Bobtail Eels · code 368
    name used: Leptocephalus holti · code 369 synonym id conflict

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125583%22