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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Centrophryne spinulosa

WoRMS 126536ITIS 164652key worms:126536
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164652 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chaunax pictus
Centrophryne spinulosa24.7 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Centrophryne spinulosa
Photo · (c) Masaki Miya et al.,保留部分权利(CC BY) · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The horned lantern fish or prickly seadevil, is a species of marine ray-finned fish and the only species in the monotypic family Centrophrynidae.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2003, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
1989–2003
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 3 obs · 3 events · 1989–2003 · larva
    name used: Centrophryne spinulosa · code 983

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:126536%22