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Centrophryne spinulosa

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

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

  • 3 obs3 events1989–2003larva
    name used: Centrophryne spinulosa · code 983

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:126536%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 24.7 cm max
Centrophryne spinulosa24.7 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 13 ranks · Biota to Centrophryne
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistFishBaseGBIF

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗