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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ophidion scrippsae

Basketweave cusk-eel

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

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum
Basketweave cusk-eel28 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Ophidion scrippsae
Photo · Matthew Bokach · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 634 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2019, as larva and egg.R

634
observations
634
records
633
sampling events
1951–2019
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
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 634 obs · 633 events · 1951–2019 · larva · egg
    name used: Ophidion scrippsae Basketweave cusk-eel · code 871

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:272835%22