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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Coryphaena hippurus

Common dolphinfish

WoRMS 126846ITIS 168791GBIF 2381939key worms:126846
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168791 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Russell Engelman · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaena hippurus
Common dolphinfish2.1 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

54", 34lb Female Dolphin Fish off coast of Jamaica
Photo · Distad · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

The mahi-mahi, common dolphinfish, dolphinfish, dolphin or dorado is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide. It is also widely called dorado and dolphin.W CalCOFI holds 392 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2006, as larva.R

392
observations
392
records
392
sampling events
1956–2006
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 392 obs · 392 events · 1956–2006 · larva
    name used: Coryphaena hippurus Common dolphinfish · code 556

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:126846%22