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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Photonectes margarita

Sooty dragonfish

WoRMS 127370ITIS 162296GBIF 2347092key worms:127370
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162296 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger
Sooty dragonfish39.6 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1912 - 1936: page 200
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Photonectes margarita is a species of deep-sea fish in the genus Photonectes. Members of the species are distributed worldwide, and typically inhabit waters at depth below 700 meters.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2011 and 2011.R

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observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2011
years
1
datasets

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.

  • Mesopelagic Fish 1 obs · 1 events · 2011
    name used: Photonectes margarita · code Photonectes margarita

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 Mesopelagic Fish table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/sio_mesopelagic-fish.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:127370%22