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Opistognathus

Jawfishes

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

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

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observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1959
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
Spotfin jawfish (Opistognathus robinsi)
Photo · NOAA's Fisheries Collection · Public domain · 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.

  • 1 obs1 events1959larva
    name used: Opistognathus Jawfishes · code 1790

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:159746%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).

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Opistognathidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Hiodon tergisus · source
  • Photo · NOAA's Fisheries Collection · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Opistognathus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366793808
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

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗