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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cubiceps pauciradiatus

Bigeye cigarfish

WoRMS 159424ITIS 172546GBIF 2381926key worms:159424
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172546 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nomeus gronovii
Bigeye cigarfish20 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Cubiceps pauciradiatus
Photo · Internet Archive Book Images, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Cubiceps pauciradiatus is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Nomeidae (driftfishes).W CalCOFI holds 485 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva.R

485
observations
485
records
485
sampling events
1959–2006
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 485 obs · 485 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Cubiceps pauciradiatus Bigeye cigarfish · code 527

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:159424%22