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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Psychrolutes

WoRMS 126169ITIS 167411key worms:126169
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167411 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Guillaume Dera · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Psychrolutes marcidus

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 Psychrolutes
Photo · NOAA/MBARI, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. Though found predominantly in the deep sea, a handful of species are present in the intertidal regions of the North Pacific rim.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2010.R

3
observations
3
records
1972–2010
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:126169")