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Leuroglossus schmidti

Northern smoothtongue

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 254551ITIS 162098key worms:254551
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162098 via WoRMS external link

The Northern smoothtongue is a type of deepwater fish that can grow to a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL. The fish are native from the Pacific Ocean to Oregon, United States and also to the Gulf of California where they are found at depths of 100 to 690 metres.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2008, as larva.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
1956–2008
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
20 cm
max length
Photograph of Leuroglossus schmidti
Photo · sergeymakeev · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 5 obs5 events1956–2008larva
    name used: Leuroglossus schmidti Northern smoothtongue · code 74

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:254551%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 20 cm max · egg 1.65–1.9 mm
Northern smoothtongue20 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Leuroglossus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Alepocephalus productus · source
  • Photo · sergeymakeev · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Northern smoothtongue” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1347093465
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistFishBaseGBIF

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

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