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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Valenciennellus tripunctulatus

Constellationfish

WoRMS 127316ITIS 162203GBIF 2347601key worms:127316
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162203 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sternoptyx pseudobscura
Constellationfish3.1 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1986 - 1994: page 55
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Valenciennellus tripunctulatus, commonly called the constellationfish, is a species of fish in the family Sternoptychidae (hatchetfish).W CalCOFI holds 76 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1962 and 2016, as larva.R

76
observations
76
records
76
sampling events
1962–2016
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 76 obs · 76 events · 1962–2016 · larva
    name used: Valenciennellus tripunctulatus Constellationfish · code 91

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:127316%22