Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chilomycterus

Burrfishes

WoRMS 126230ITIS 173383GBIF 2406482key worms:126230

2026-08-05: itis_id 173383 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emily Troyer · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Diodon hystrix

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).

Striped burrfish have large heads and somewhat bulging eyes that are spaced widely apart. They are yellow-brown to olive-brown with large dark splotches along their bodies. Their eyes are golden yello — Photo · Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA (Outside Washington DC), USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Chilomycterus is a genus of diodontid tetraodontiform fishes commonly called "burrfish".W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as larva.R

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observations: 1
records: 1
sampling events: 2002
years: 1
datasets: 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 · 2002 · larva
name used: Chilomycterus Burrfishes · code 2310

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.01, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126230%22

Chilomycterus

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.10.01, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.01, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.