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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Danaphos

WoRMS 268947ITIS 162231key worms:268947
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162231 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sternoptyx pseudobscura

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: 1971 - 1985: page 52
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Danaphos is an oceanic ray-finned fish genus which belongs in the family Sternoptychidae. A common name is bottlelights.W CalCOFI holds 1,410 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2023.R

1,410
observations
1,410
records
1959–2023
years
2
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:268947")