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Gigantactis

Whipnoses

WoRMS 125798ITIS 164643GBIF 2415171key worms:125798
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164643 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gigantactis

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).

Gigantactis spp
Photo · see above · CC BY 3.0 · commons

Gigantactis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gigantactinidae, the whipnose anglers. The fishes in this genus have a circumglobal distribution in the deep waters of the tropical and temperate zones of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 213 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2017, as larva.R

213
observations
213
records
213
sampling events
1959–2017
years
1
datasets
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 213 obs · 213 events · 1959–2017 · larva
    name used: Gigantactis Whipnoses · code 996

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:125798%22