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Scopelarchus

Pearleyes

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125683ITIS 162553GBIF 2401443key worms:125683
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162553 via WoRMS external link

Scopelarchus is a genus of pearleyes.W CalCOFI holds 673 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2017, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

673
observations
673
records
58
sampling events
1959–2017
years
2
datasets
4
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Scopelarchus
Photo · Chun, Carl, 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.

  • 58 obs58 events1959–2004larva
    name used: Scopelarchus Pearleyes · code 338

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:125683%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 4 taxa · Scopelarchus guentheri most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Scopelarchidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens · source
  • Photo · Chun, Carl, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Scopelarchus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1254940357
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 ↗