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Opisthonema

WoRMS 158694ITIS 161747GBIF 9547148key worms:158694
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161747 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Ophisthonema oglinum

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Opisthonema oglinum from the Gulf of Mexico
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain · commons

Opisthonema is a genus of herrings, the thread herrings, found in tropical waters of the Western Hemisphere. They get their name from a filamentous nature of the last ray of the dorsal fin.W CalCOFI holds 98 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, as larva.R

98
observations
98
records
98
sampling events
1951–2006
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 98 obs · 98 events · 1951–2006 · larva
    name used: Opisthonema · code 16

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:158694%22