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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gunnellichthys curiosus

Curious wormfish

WoRMS 219608ITIS 637470key worms:219608
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2026-08-05: itis_id 637470 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ptereleotrinae
Curious wormfish12 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Curious wormfish (Gunnellichthys curiosus), Mahé, Seychelles
Photo · Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Gunnellichthys curiosus, the curious wormfish, is a species of wormfish native to the Indian Ocean from the Seychelles and Mauritius to the Hawaiian Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. It is an inhabitant of reefs and can be found at depths of from 9 to 60 m.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
2002
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 3 obs · 3 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Gunnellichthys curiosus Curious wormfish · code 2160

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:219608%22