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Avocettina bowersii

Smalleye snipe eel

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 271904ITIS 635681GBIF 5213057key worms:271904
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2026-08-05: itis_id 635681 via WoRMS external link

Avocettina bowersii is an eel in the family Nemichthyidae. It was described by Samuel Garman in 1899.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 1999, as larva.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
1998–1999
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
42 cm
max length
Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus

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.

  • 2 obs2 events1998–1999larva
    name used: Avocettina bowersii Smalleye snipe eel · code 373

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:271904%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 42 cm max
Smalleye snipe eel42 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · fishbase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Avocettina
Credits silhouette · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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 ↗