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Atherinopsis

WoRMS 268432ITIS 166011key worms:268432
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166011 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 Atherinopsis
Photo · Jay Vavra · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 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:268432")