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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Anotopterus pharao

Daggertooth

WoRMS 126334ITIS 162534GBIF 2401111key worms:126334
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162534 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens
Daggertooth96 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Anotopterus pharao
Photo · A: Okiyama, M. 1984. Myctophiformes: Development. In H.G. Moser, W.J. Richards, D.M. Cohen, M.P. Fahay, A.W. Kendall, Jr., and S.L Richardson (eds.), Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. Spec. Publ. 1, Am.Soc. Ichthyol. Herpetol., p. 206-218. Allen Press, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The daggertooth is a species of daggertooth. Its distribution includes the North Atlantic Ocean and west of Africa.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2021, as larva.R

4
observations
4
records
4
sampling events
1951–2021
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 4 obs · 4 events · 1951–2021 · larva
    name used: Anotopterus pharao Daggertooth · code 326

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/.

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:126334%22