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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scopelosaurus

Paperbones

WoRMS 125672ITIS 162565GBIF 2401049key worms:125672
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162565 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens

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 Scopelosaurus
Photo · Jean-François Rousseau · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Scopelosaurus is a genus of waryfishes.W CalCOFI holds 505 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1955 and 2022, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

505
observations
505
records
478
sampling events
1955–2022
years
2
datasets
4
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 478 obs · 478 events · 1955–2022 · larva
    name used: Scopelosaurus Paperbones · code 196

Under it · 4 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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125672%22