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Lampris guttatus

Opah

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126522ITIS 166326GBIF 2400463key worms:126522
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166326 via WoRMS external link

Lampris guttatus, commonly known as the opah, cravo, moonfish, kingfish, and Jerusalem haddock, is a large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the family Lampridae, which comprises the genus Lampris.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2002
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
2 m
max length
Pesce Re pescato a Castellammare di Stabia
Photo · Io · Public domain · 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: Lampris guttatus Opah · code 1295

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:126522%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 2 m max · egg 0.7–0.82 mm
Opah2 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

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.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Lampris
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus · source
  • Photo · Io · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Lampris guttatus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369852835
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗