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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cheilopogon dorsomacula

Blackspot flyingfish

WoRMS 272153ITIS 645237GBIF 5207989key worms:272153
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2026-08-05: itis_id 645237 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cheilopogon spilopterus
Blackspot flyingfish23 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Cheilopogon dorsomacula
Photo · Максим Стефанович · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Cheilopogon dorsomacula is a species of fish in the family Exocoetidae.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1999 and 1999, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1999
years
1
datasets
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 · 1999 · larva
    name used: Cheilopogon dorsomacula Blackspot flyingfish · code 193

How big is it
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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.

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:272153%22