Sternoptyx
Dollar hatchetfishes
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162226 via WoRMS external link 2026-08-05: itis_id 162226 via WoRMS external link 2026-08-05: worms_id 126199 matched by name "Sternoptyx"
Sternoptyx is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. This is the type genus of the Sternoptychidae, as well as the marine hatchetfish subfamily Sternoptychinae.W CalCOFI holds 1,480 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R
- 1,480
- observations
- 1,480
- records
- 1,472
- sampling events
- 1959–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 2 datasetsi
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Sternoptyx Dollar hatchetfishes · code
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name used: Sternoptyx sp. · code
Sternoptyx sp.sp. → genus
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126199")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126199'").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 2 taxa · Sternoptyx obscura most observed
- sp Sternoptyx obscura Dusky hatchetfish6
- sp Sternoptyx diaphana Longspine hatchetfish2
Life stages larva
- Ichthyoplankton larva
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Sternoptychinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sternoptyx pseudobscura · source
- Photo · Unspecified, Texas A&M University at Galveston · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Sternoptyx” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1358840687
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗