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Hemanthias

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159223ITIS 167799GBIF 2387431key worms:159223
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167799 via WoRMS external link

Hemanthias is a genus of colourful marine ray-finned fish in the family Anthiadidae. They are found at rocky reefs at depths of 20–610 m (66–2,001 ft) in the tropical and subtropical East Pacific and West Atlantic.W CalCOFI holds 9 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

9
observations
9
records
4
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Collected by the B/O Miguel Oliver on the shelf edge of Pacific Central America
Photo · D. ROSS ROBERTSON, ARTURO ANGULO, CAROLE C. BALDWIN, DIANE PITASSY, AMY DRISKELL, LEE WEIGT, IGNACIO J.F. NAVARRO · CC BY 3.0 · 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.

  • 4 obs4 events1959–2006larva
    name used: Hemanthias · code 448

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:159223%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 2 taxa · Hemanthias signifer most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Anthiadidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · D. ROSS ROBERTSON, ARTURO ANGULO, CAROLE C. BALDWIN, DIANE PITASSY, AMY DRISKELL, LEE WEIGT, IGNACIO J.F. NAVARRO · CC BY 3.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Hemanthias” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355337243
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

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