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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cheilodactylus

Merwongs, fingerfins

WoRMS 205497ITIS 170253GBIF 2392108key worms:205497
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170253 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Nemadactylus macropterus

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 Cheilodactylus
Photo · Andy MacDonald · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Cheilodactylus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cheilodactylidae, known as morwongs, although this name is not unique to this family. They are found in the temperate waters of the southern hemisphere and in the North Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2000 and 2003, as larva.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
2000–2003
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 2 obs · 2 events · 2000–2003 · larva
    name used: Cheilodactylus Merwongs, fingerfins · code 633

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:205497%22