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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Nomeus gronovii

Man-of-war fish

WoRMS 126991ITIS 172554GBIF 2381886key worms:126991
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172554 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nomeus gronovii
Man-of-war fish39 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Nomeus gronovii
Photo · John Sear · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Nomeus gronovii, the man-of-war fish or bluebottle fish, is a species of fish in the family Nomeidae, the driftfish. It is a distinct species characterized by an elongated body, large eyes, and blackish-blue stripes, growing up to 39 cm long.W CalCOFI holds 21 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2000, as larva.R

21
observations
21
records
21
sampling events
1966–2000
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 21 obs · 21 events · 1966–2000 · larva
    name used: Nomeus gronovii Man-of-war fish · code 521

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:126991%22