Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Avocettina infans

Blackline snipe eel

WoRMS 126304ITIS 161619GBIF 5213060key worms:126304

2026-08-05: itis_id 161619 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

Blackline snipe eel80 cm

bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1986 - 1994: page 31 — Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

The avocet snipe eel is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae, found in all oceans except the Mediterranean and the eastern Pacific, at depths between 50 and 4,500 m. Their length is up to 75 centimetres (2.46 ft).W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 2 datasets between 2002 and 2012, as larva.R

4
observations: 4
records: 4
sampling events: 2002–2012
years: 2
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.

Mesopelagic Fish 2 obs · 2 events · 2011–2012
name used: Avocettina infans · code Avocettina infans
Ichthyoplankton 2 obs · 2 events · 2002 · larva
name used: Avocettina infans Blackline snipe eel · code 333

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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/.

Explorer db-query

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

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/sio_mesopelagic-fish.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:126304%22

Avocettina infans

How big is itiEvery mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it
i
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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/.