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Myctophum

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125829ITIS 162719GBIF 2405851key worms:125829

Myctophum is a genus of lanternfishes, some species of which, such as M. punctatum, are noted for having the Stylophthalmine trait in their larval form.W CalCOFI holds 1,585 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

1,585
observations
1,585
records
75
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Myctophum
Photo · anonymous · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

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.

  • 75 obs75 events1972–2006larva
    name used: Myctophum · code 274

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:125829%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 · Myctophum nitidulum 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 Myctophinae
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 ↗