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Gillellus

sand stargazer

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 269211ITIS 171037GBIF 2390156key worms:269211
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171037 via WoRMS external link

Gillellus is a genus of sand stargazers, found in the eastern central Pacific Ocean and western central Atlantic Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1965 and 1965, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
1965
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
Gillellus uranidea Böhlke, 1968—warteye stargazer, 27.7 mm SL. Photo by JT Williams.
Photo · Williams, J. T.; Carpenter, K. E.; Van Tassell, J. L.; Hoetjes, P.; Toller, W.; Etnoyer, P.; Smith, M. · CC BY 2.5 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 3 obs3 events1965larva
    name used: Gillellus sand stargazer · code 2020

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:269211%22

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).

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Dactyloscopidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes · source
  • Photo · Williams, J. T.; Carpenter, K. E.; Van Tassell, J. L.; Hoetjes, P.; Toller, W.; Etnoyer, P.; Smith, M. · CC BY 2.5 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Gillellus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1089088733
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗