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Stylephorus chordatus

Tube-eyes

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126526ITIS 166360GBIF 2400459key worms:126526
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166360 via WoRMS external link

Stylephorus is a genus of deep-sea ray-finned fish. It contains a single species, Stylephorus chordatus, also called the tube-eye or thread-tail.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2003, as larva.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
2002–2003
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
28 cm
max length
Photograph of Stylephorus chordatus
Photo · Bloch, Marcus Elieser; Hennig, J. F.; Schneider, Johann Gottlob, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

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.

  • 2 obs2 events2002–2003larva
    name used: Stylephorus chordatus Tube-eyes · code 1297

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:126526%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 28 cm max
Tube-eyes28 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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 Stylephorus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Stylephorus chordatus · source
  • Photo · Bloch, Marcus Elieser; Hennig, J. F.; Schneider, Johann Gottlob, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Stylephorus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368977788
  • Length · worms_attribute
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 ↗