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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Coryphaena equiselis

Pompano dolphinfish

WoRMS 126845ITIS 168792GBIF 2381960key worms:126845
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168792 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Russell Engelman · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaena hippurus
Pompano dolphinfish1.3 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Pompano dolphinfish (Coryphaena equiselis)
Photo · NOAA/FPIR Observer Program · Public domain · commons

The pompano dolphinfish is a species of surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in tropical and subtropical waters. They are one of only two members of the family Coryphaenidae, the other being the mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish.W CalCOFI holds 450 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2006, as larva.R

450
observations
450
records
450
sampling events
1972–2006
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 450 obs · 450 events · 1972–2006 · larva
    name used: Coryphaena equiselis Pompano dolphinfish · code 557

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:126845%22