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Borophryne

WoRMS 268562ITIS 622778GBIF 2414386key worms:268562
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622778 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Haplophryne mollis

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).

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1912 - 1936: page 142
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Borophryne apogon, the netdevil or greedy seadevil, is a species of leftvent anglerfish known today from the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean off the Central American coast. It is found at depths down to around 1,750 m (5,700 ft).W CalCOFI holds 6 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1961 and 2006, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

6
observations
6
records
1
sampling events
1961–2006
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 1 obs · 1 events · 1998 · larva
    name used: Borophryne · code 974

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:268562%22