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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ceratias holboelli

Northern giant seadevil

WoRMS 126537ITIS 164655GBIF 5214853key worms:126537
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164655 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · maija.karala · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ceratias holboelli
Northern giant seadevil1.2 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Krøyer's deep sea angler fish (Ceratias holboelli)
Photo · Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Krøyer's deep sea angler fish, also known as the deep-sea angler, longray seadevil or northern seadevil, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ceratiidae, the warty seadevils. It is found throughout the oceans of the world, from tropical to polar seas.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1992 and 2006, as larva.R

10
observations
10
records
10
sampling events
1992–2006
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 10 obs · 10 events · 1992–2006 · larva
    name used: Ceratias holboelli Northern giant seadevil · code 979

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:126537%22