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Zu cristatus

Scalloped ribbonfish

WoRMS 126529ITIS 166353GBIF 2400533key worms:126529
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166353 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus
Scalloped ribbonfish1.2 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Scalloped ribbonfish (Zu cristatus)
Photo · NOAA/PIRO Observer Program · Public domain · commons

Zu cristatus, or the scalloped ribbonfish, is a species of ribbonfish in the family Trachipteridae found circumglobally at tropical latitudes, at depths of around 90 m. It grows up to 118 cm in length, and adult weights are around 4000g.W CalCOFI holds 28 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2003, as larva.R

28
observations
28
records
28
sampling events
1959–2003
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 28 obs · 28 events · 1959–2003 · larva
    name used: Zu cristatus Scalloped ribbonfish · code 384

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:126529%22