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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Maurolicus

WoRMS 126197ITIS 162186GBIF 2346768key worms:126197
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162186 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sternoptyx pseudobscura

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 Maurolicus
Photo · Jovan Grollino · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Maurolicus is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the marine hatchetfish family Sternoptychidae. They are commonly known as pearlsides, but the brilliant pearlside is the related Argyripnus iridescens.W CalCOFI holds 26 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2000 and 2006, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

26
observations
26
records
20
sampling events
2000–2006
years
1
datasets
1
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 20 obs · 20 events · 2000–2006 · larva
    name used: Maurolicus · code 99

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126197%22