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Lestrolepis intermedia

Brilliant-bellied barracudina

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 158873ITIS 162516GBIF 2401542key worms:158873
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162516 via WoRMS external link

Lestrolepis intermedia is a species of fish in the family Paralepididae.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2006, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
2002–2006
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
33.8 cm
max length
A species of barracudina ( Lestrolepis intermedia ) Image ID: fish4307, NOAA's Fisheries Collection Location: Gulf of Mexico Credit: SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/
Photo · Brandi Noble · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 3 obs3 events2002–2006larva
    name used: Lestrolepis intermedia · code 1230

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:158873%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 33.8 cm max
Brilliant-bellied barracudina33.8 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Lestrolepis
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗