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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Tactostoma

WoRMS 271024ITIS 162246key worms:271024
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162246 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger

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 Tactostoma
Photo · Merlin Best · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Tactostoma macropus, the longfin dragonfish, is a species of barbeled dragonfish found in the Pacific Ocean down to depths of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft). This species grows to a length of 34.3 centimetres (13.5 in) TL.W CalCOFI holds 330 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023.R

330
observations
330
records
1951–2023
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:271024")