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Oligoplites

Leatherjackets

WoRMS 159642ITIS 168672GBIF 2390621key worms:159642
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168672 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Seriola rivoliana

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).

Photograph of Oligoplites
Photo · Alberto · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Oligoplites is a genus of Trachinotidae commonly known as the "leatherjackets." Species of leatherjackets are native to warmer seas off the Americas, including the East Pacific, West Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2003, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

10
observations
10
records
7
sampling events
1987–2003
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
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 7 obs · 7 events · 1990–2003 · larva
    name used: Oligoplites Leatherjackets · code 513

Under it · 1 taxon

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:159642%22