Atherinopsis
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166011 via WoRMS external link
Atherinopsis californiensis, the jack silverside or jacksmelt, is a species of neotropical silverside native to the Pacific coast of North America from Oregon, United States to southern Baja California, Mexico. This species often grows to 49 cm, but specimens of 55 cm (22 in) in total length have been reported.W CalCOFI holds 454 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2023.R
- 454
- observations
- 454
- records
- 1960–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:268432")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:268432'").df()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).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Atherinopsis californiensis Jacksmelt454
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Atherinopsinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Odontesthes · source
- Photo · Jay Vavra · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Jack silverside” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362847246
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗