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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Melanocetus

WoRMS 125803ITIS 164612GBIF 2414302key worms:125803
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164612 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Melanocetus murrayi

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 Melanocetus
Photo · Ryan Somma · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Black seadevils are small, deep-sea lophiiform fish of the family Melanocetidae. The six known species are all within the genus Melanocetus.W CalCOFI holds 40 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2006, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

40
observations
40
records
29
sampling events
1972–2006
years
1
datasets
1
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 29 obs · 29 events · 1972–2006 · larva
    name used: Melanocetus · code 984

Under it · 1 taxon

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:125803%22