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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Trachipterus altivelis

King-of-the-salmon

WoRMS 272531ITIS 166341key worms:272531
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166341 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus
King-of-the-salmon1.8 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

King-of-the-salmon (Trachipterus altivelis)
Photo · NOAA/NMFS · Public domain · commons

King-of-the-salmon is a species of ribbonfish in the family Trachipteridae. Its common name comes from the legends of the Makah people west of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which hold that this fish leads the salmon annually to their spawning grounds.W CalCOFI holds 584 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2023, as larva.R

584
observations
584
records
584
sampling events
1959–2023
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 584 obs · 584 events · 1959–2023 · larva
    name used: Trachipterus altivelis King-of-the-salmon · code 382

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:272531%22