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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Microstoma

Dusky pencilsmelt

WoRMS 125892ITIS 162093GBIF 2594890key worms:125892
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162093 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hyalonema schmidti

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 Microstoma
Photo · Museum of Comparative Zoology · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Microstoma is a genus of pencil smelt.W CalCOFI holds 1,220 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

1,220
observations
1,220
records
1,202
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
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 1,202 obs · 1,202 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Microstoma Dusky pencilsmelt · code 58

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:125892%22