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Synodus

WoRMS 125686ITIS 162375GBIF 2352256key worms:125686
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162375 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).

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

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

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 616 obs · 616 events · 1951–2003 · larva
    name used: Synodus · code 206

Under it · 6 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:125686%22