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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Borostomias

Snaggletooth

WoRMS 126204ITIS 162239key worms:126204
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162239 via WoRMS external link

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 Borostomias
Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Borostomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2003, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

2
observations
2
records
1
sampling events
1998–2003
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2003 · larva
    name used: Borostomias Snaggletooth · code 1155

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:126204%22