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Synodus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125686ITIS 162375GBIF 2352256key worms:125686
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162375 via WoRMS external link

Synodus is a genus of fish in the family Synodontidae found in Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 1,170 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 7 taxa under it.R

1,170
observations
1,170
records
616
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
6
species under it
larva
life stages
A common Sand Diver (Synodus intermedius) in Curaçao, Netherland Antilles flashes its best smile for the camera. 105mm macro lens, f/16 1/90 synch with Ikelite Ai TTL strobe. Kodachrome 64 slide filmT
Photo · LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons

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.

  • 616 obs616 events1951–2003larva
    name used: Synodus · code 206

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:125686%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 6 taxa · Synodus lucioceps 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 Synodontidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens · source
  • Photo · LASZLO ILYES (laszlo-photo) from Cleveland, Ohio, USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Synodus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354832397
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 ↗