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Atherinella

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 268430ITIS 630593GBIF 2412134key worms:268430
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2026-08-05: itis_id 630593 via WoRMS external link

Atherinella is a genus of Neotropical silversides from freshwater, brackish and marine habitats in Mexico, Central America and South America.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 2003, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
1999–2003
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
An array of various fishes collected from waters in the Tirimbina Biological Reserve of Costa Rica. Per source: A. Rhamdia guatemalensis (Günther, 1864), upper: adult specimen, about 160 mm SL, middle
Photo · Arturo Angulo, Beatriz Naranjo-Elizondo, Emmanuel Rojas, and Juan Manuel Ley-López · CC BY 4.0 · commons

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.

  • 3 obs3 events1999–2003larva
    name used: Atherinella · code 172

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:268430%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 not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Menidiinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Odontesthes · source
  • Photo · Arturo Angulo, Beatriz Naranjo-Elizondo, Emmanuel Rojas, and Juan Manuel Ley-López · CC BY 4.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Atherinella” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362515008
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗