Diplospinus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125969ITIS 172375key worms:125969

2026-08-05: itis_id 172375 via WoRMS external link

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

Photo · FAO · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

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

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 1 taxon

sp Diplospinus multistriatus Ribbon snake mackerel120

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Gempylidae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Russell Engelman · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ruvettus pretiosus · source
Photo · FAO · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Diplospinus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1313936633

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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