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Bathylagus pacificus

Pacific blacksmelt

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 272919ITIS 162086key worms:272919
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162086 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 1,073 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as larva.R

1,073
observations
1,073
records
1,073
sampling events
1951–2022
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
25 cm
max length
Photograph of Bathylagus pacificus
Photo · linddealy · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 1,072 obs1,072 events1951–2022larva
    name used: Bathylagus pacificus Pacific blacksmelt · code 69
  • 1 obs1 events2011
    name used: Bathylagus pacificus · code Bathylagus pacificus

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:272919%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 25 cm max · egg 1.4–1.6 mm
Pacific blacksmelt25 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
  • 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 Bathylagus
Credits silhouette · photo · length · plate
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Alepocephalus productus · source
  • Photo · linddealy · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistFishBaseGBIF

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 ↗