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Protomyctophum

WoRMS 125832ITIS 162684GBIF 2406338key worms:125832
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162684 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

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 Protomyctophum
Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Protomyctophum is a genus of lanternfishes.W CalCOFI holds 13,039 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

13,039
observations
13,039
records
24
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
2
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 24 obs · 24 events · 1968–2016 · larva
    name used: Protomyctophum · code 289

Under it · 2 taxa

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:125832%22