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Photonectes

WoRMS 126217ITIS 162295key worms:126217
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162295 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 Photonectes
Photo · anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Photonectes is a genus of fish in the family Stomiidae found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 40 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1960 and 2011, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

40
observations
40
records
39
sampling events
1960–2011
years
2
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 39 obs · 39 events · 1960–2002 · larva
    name used: Photonectes · code 139

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:126217%22