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Cyematidae

Bobtail Eels

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

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
Photograph of Cyematidae
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · 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.

  • 7 obs7 events1969–2012larva
    name used: Cyematidae Bobtail Eels · code 368
    name used: Leptocephalus holti · code 369 synonym id conflict

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:125583%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 1 taxon
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Anguilliformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus · source
  • Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Cyema” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355297459
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗