Halobates
Sea skaters
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2026-08-05: itis_id 103825 via WoRMS external link
Halobates, colloquially the sea skaters or ocean striders, are an insect genus with over 40 species of water striders. Most Halobates species are coastal and typically found in sheltered, coastal marine habitats, but five live on the surface of the open ocean and only occur near the coast when storms blow them ashore.W CalCOFI holds 434 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 2013, as invert.R
- 434
- observations
- 434
- records
- 434
- sampling events
- 1999–2013
- years
- 1
- datasets
- invert
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
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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.
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name used: Halobates Sea skaters · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:204105")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:204105'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, 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 invert
- Ichthyoplankton invert
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Halobatini
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Tommaso Cancellario · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gerris lacustris · source
- Photo · Jared Shorma · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Halobates” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1344430670
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗