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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bathophilus

Dragonfish

WoRMS 126203ITIS 162243GBIF 3238312key worms:126203
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162243 via WoRMS external link 2026-08-05: itis_id 162243 via WoRMS external link 2026-08-05: worms_id 126203 matched by name "Bathophilus"

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

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 Bathophilus
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFS., no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Bathophilus is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes native to the ocean depths of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.W CalCOFI holds 349 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2017, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

349
observations
349
records
82
sampling events
1951–2017
years
2
datasets
3
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 81 obs · 81 events · 1951–2015 · larva
    name used: Bathophilus · code 131
  • Mesopelagic Fish 1 obs · 1 events · 2012
    name used: Bathophilus sp. · code Bathophilus sp. sp. → genus

Under it · 3 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:126203%22