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Chilomycterus

Burrfishes

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126230ITIS 173383GBIF 2406482key worms:126230
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2026-08-05: itis_id 173383 via WoRMS external link

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
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

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 1 obs1 events2002larva
    name used: Chilomycterus Burrfishes · code 2310

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.11.09, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Diodontidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Emily Troyer · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Diodon hystrix · source
  • Photo · Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA (Outside Washington DC), USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Chilomycterus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1359705538
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.11.09

Cite the release, v2026.11.09; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗