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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Diplospinus

WoRMS 125969ITIS 172375key worms:125969
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172375 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Russell Engelman · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ruvettus pretiosus

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 Diplospinus
Photo · FAO · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Diplospinus multistriatus, the Striped escolar, is a species of snake mackerel of cosmopolitan distribution at depths of from 50 to 1,000 metres. This species grows to a length of 33 centimetres (13 in) SL though most do not exceed 20 centimetres (7.9 in) SL.W CalCOFI holds 120 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2017.R

120
observations
120
records
1960–2017
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125969")