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Centrobranchus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125817ITIS 162731key worms:125817
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162731 via WoRMS external link

Centrobranchus is a genus of lanternfishes.W CalCOFI holds 46 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2003, across 2 taxa under it.R

46
observations
46
records
1960–2003
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1937 - 1960: page 86
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Centrobranchus nigroocellatus most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125817")

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 · Centrobranchus nigroocellatus most observed
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Myctophinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum · source
  • Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Centrobranchus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1154776276
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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

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