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Ophidion scrippsae

Basketweave cusk-eel

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 272835ITIS 164856GBIF 5203022key worms:272835
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164856 via WoRMS external link

The basketweave cusk-eel is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae. It is widespread in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Point Arguello in California, United States, to Baja California.W CalCOFI holds 636 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as larva and egg.R

636
observations
636
records
635
sampling events
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
life stages
28 cm
max length
Photograph of Ophidion scrippsae
Photo · Matthew Bokach · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 636 obs635 events1951–2019larva · egg
    name used: Ophidion scrippsae Basketweave cusk-eel · code 871

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:272835%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 28 cm max · flexion 9.6–11.5 mm
Basketweave cusk-eel28 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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 · egg
  • Ichthyoplankton larva · egg

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

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Ophidion
Credits silhouette · photo · 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, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗