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Bolinichthys

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125816ITIS 162761GBIF 2405786key worms:125816
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162761 via WoRMS external link

Bolinichthys is a genus of lanternfishes.W CalCOFI holds 180 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2012, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

180
observations
180
records
29
sampling events
1959–2012
years
2
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Specimen of the lanternfish Bolinichhys supralateralis caught aboard the Irish ship RV Celtic Explorer. Skin and scales have been abraded during capture (though dark scale pockets are visible on the d
Photo · HulloThere · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.

  • 29 obs29 events1987–2003larva
    name used: Bolinichthys · code 254

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:125816%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 2 taxa · Bolinichthys longipes 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 Lampanyctinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
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 ↗