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Avocettina

WoRMS 125638ITIS 161614GBIF 2403709key worms:125638
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161614 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).

Collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America
Photo · D. ROSS ROBERTSON, ARTURO ANGULO, CAROLE C. BALDWIN, DIANE PITASSY, AMY DRISKELL, LEE WEIGT, IGNACIO J.F. NAVARRO · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Avocettina is a genus of eels in the snipe-eel family Nemichthyidae. It currently contains the following species:Avocettina acuticeps (Regan, 1916) Avocettina bowersii (Garman, 1899) Avocettina infans (Günther, 1878) Avocettina paucipora J. G. Nielsen & D. G. Smith, 1978…W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1998 and 2012, across 2 taxa under it.R

6
observations
6
records
1998–2012
years
2
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 2 taxa

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:125638")