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Stomias

WoRMS 126220ITIS 162286key worms:126220
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162286 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 Stomias
Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Stomias is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes. They live in the mesopelagic zone of all oceans and show diel vertical migration and sexual dimorphism (males are smaller, have larger eyes and larger postorbital photophores than females.W CalCOFI holds 3,245 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

3,245
observations
3,245
records
46
sampling events
1951–2023
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 46 obs · 46 events · 1972–2006 · larva
    name used: Stomias · code 138

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:126220%22