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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Coryphaenoides leptolepis

Ghostly grenadier

WoRMS 158959ITIS 622867GBIF 5215231key worms:158959
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622867 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Sarah Alewijnse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaenoides armatus
Ghostly grenadier62 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Ghostly grenadier (Coryphaenoides leptolepis) on the Davidson Seamount at 3158 meters depth.
Photo · NOAA/MBARI · Public domain · commons

Coryphaenoides leptolepis, the ghostly grenadier, is a species of rattail found in the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at depths of 610 to 4,000 metres. This species grows to a length of 62 centimetres (24 in) TL.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2008, as larva.R

4
observations
4
records
4
sampling events
1972–2008
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 4 obs · 4 events · 1972–2008 · larva
    name used: Coryphaenoides leptolepis Ghostly grenadier · code 893

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:158959%22