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Benthalbella dentata

Northern pearleye

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 254572ITIS 162550GBIF 2401437key worms:254572
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162550 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 368 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023, as larva.R

368
observations
368
records
368
sampling events
1959–2023
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
24 cm
max length
Un spécimen de Benthalbella dentata, posé à côté d'une règle de mesure
Photo · The International Barcode of Life Consortium (2026). International Barcode of Life project (iBOL). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/inygc6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-08-01. https://gbif.org/occurrence/2251566442 · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 366 obs366 events1959–2023larva
    name used: Benthalbella dentata Northern pearleye · code 336
  • 2 obs2 events2011
    name used: Benthalbella dentata · code Benthalbella dentata

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:254572%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 24 cm max · flexion 13–19 mm
Northern pearleye24 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 13 ranks · Biota to Benthalbella
Credits silhouette · photo · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Synodus foetens · source
  • Photo · The International Barcode of Life Consortium (2026). International Barcode of Life project (iBOL). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/inygc6 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-08-01. https://gbif.org/occurrence/2251566442 · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
  • 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

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗