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Melanostigma pammelas

Midwater eelpout

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274134ITIS 165295key worms:274134
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165295 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1966 and 2012, as larva.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
1966–2012
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
11 cm
max length
Photograph of Melanostigma pammelas
Photo · Anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

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 obs1 events2012
    name used: Melanostigma pammelas · code Melanostigma pammelas
  • 1 obs1 events1966larva
    name used: Melanostigma pammelas Midwater eelpout · code 890

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Mesopelagic Fish table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/sio_mesopelagic-fish.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:274134%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 11 cm max
Midwater eelpout11 cm
US quarter2.4 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 14 ranks · Biota to Melanostigma
Credits silhouette · photo · length
  • Silhouette · Élodie JACOB · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Melanostigma pammelas · source
  • Photo · Anonymous, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat · source
  • Length · worms_attribute
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, v2026.10.20

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