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Opistognathus

Jawfishes

WoRMS 159746ITIS 170925GBIF 2391754key worms:159746
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170925 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus

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).

Spotfin jawfish (Opistognathus robinsi)
Photo · NOAA's Fisheries Collection · Public domain · commons

Opistognathus is a genus of fish in the family Opistognathidae found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 1959, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1959
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 1 obs · 1 events · 1959 · larva
    name used: Opistognathus Jawfishes · code 1790

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:159746%22