Aphanopus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172388 via WoRMS external link
Aphanopus, the black scabbardfishes, is a genus of Cutlassfish which contains the following species:Aphanopus arigato Parin, 1994 Aphanopus beckeri Parin, 1994 Aphanopus capricornis Parin, 1994 Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839 Aphanopus intermedius Parin, 1983 Aphanopus microphthalmus Norman, 1939 Aphanopus mikhailini Par…W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002.R
- 2
- observations
- 2
- records
- 2002
- years
- 1
- datasets
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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis 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:126095")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126095'").df()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 Aphanopus arigato Pacific black scabbardfish2
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Aphanopodinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix · source
- Photo · Hedwig Storch · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Aphanopus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366329451
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗