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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Atherinops

WoRMS 268431ITIS 165985GBIF 2412418key worms:268431
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165985 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Odontesthes

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

Photograph of Atherinops
Photo · Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The topsmelt silverside, also known as the topsmelt, is a species of Neotropical silverside native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 26 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1964 and 2006.R

26
observations
26
records
1964–2006
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:268431")