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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Spectrunculus grandis

Giant Cusk-eel

WoRMS 126678ITIS 622862GBIF 2345567key worms:126678
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622862 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum
Giant Cusk-eel1.3 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Giant cusk-eel (Spectrunculus grandis) at the Davidson Seamount (2516 meters depth).
Photo · NOAA/MBARI · Public domain · commons

Spectrunculus grandis is a species of Rhizopharyngia ray-finned fish in the cusk-eel family known by the common names pudgy cusk-eel and giant cusk-eel. It is one of two species in the formerly monotypic genus Spectrunculus, the other species, S. crassus, having been differentiated in 2008.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2010, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
1960–2010
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 · 1960–2010 · larva
    name used: Spectrunculus grandis Giant Cusk-eel · code 1320

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:126678%22