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Argyropelecus

WoRMS 126196ITIS 162213GBIF 2347565key worms:126196
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162213 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · João Pedro Fernandes Moutinho · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Argyropelecus olfersii

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).

Atlantic silver hatchetfish ( Argyropelecus aculeatus). Gulf of Mexico.
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain · commons

Argyropelecus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus in the deep sea hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. A collective name is "silver hatchetfishes", but this can also refer to a species of the freshwater hatchetfishes which are not particularly closely related to this.W CalCOFI holds 4,244 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

4,244
observations
4,244
records
301
sampling events
1959–2023
years
2
datasets
4
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 301 obs · 301 events · 1959–2023 · larva
    name used: Argyropelecus · code 101

Under it · 4 taxa

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:126196%22