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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ptereleotris heteroptera

Indigo dartfish

WoRMS 219617ITIS 171956GBIF 2385827key worms:219617
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171956 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ptereleotris zebra
Indigo dartfish14 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Blacktail goby (Ptereleotris heteroptera) (Bleeker, 1855)
Photo · User:OpenCage · CC BY-SA 2.5 · commons

Ptereleotris heteroptera is a species of fish in the family Microdesmidae.W CalCOFI holds 13 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as larva.R

13
observations
13
records
13
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 13 obs · 13 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Ptereleotris heteroptera Indigo dartfish · code 2175

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:219617%22