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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Margrethia obtusirostra

Bighead portholefish

WoRMS 127297ITIS 622694GBIF 2347480key worms:127297
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622694 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger
Bighead portholefish8.3 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Margrethia obtusirostra
Photo · anonymous · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Margrethia obtusirostra, the Bighead portholefish, is a bristlemouth of the family Gonostomatidae, found in the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, at depths of between 100 and 600 m. Its length is between 5 and 8 cm.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2002, as larva.R

8
observations
8
records
8
sampling events
1972–2002
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 8 obs · 8 events · 1972–2002 · larva
    name used: Margrethia obtusirostra · code 1123

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:127297%22