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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ophidion

WoRMS 125863ITIS 164839GBIF 3239089key worms:125863
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164839 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum

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).

Ophidion barbatum photographed near Tuscany coast (Central Italy). Photo by Stefano Guerrieri.
Photo · Etrusko25 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Ophidion is a genus of cusk-eels.W CalCOFI holds 642 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

642
observations
642
records
8
sampling events
1951–2019
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 8 obs · 8 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Ophidion · code 786

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:125863%22