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Melamphaes parvus

Little bigscale

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274935ITIS 649666key worms:274935
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2026-08-05: itis_id 649666 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 425 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2022, as larva.R

425
observations
425
records
425
sampling events
1959–2022
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
4.9 cm
max length
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1971 - 1985: page 52
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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.

  • 396 obs396 events1959–2022larva
    name used: Melamphaes parvus Little bigscale · code 397
  • 29 obs29 events2010–2012
    name used: Melamphaes parvus · code Melamphaes parvus

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:274935%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 4.9 cm max · flexion 5.9–7.3 mm
Little bigscale4.9 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · fishbase

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 13 ranks · Biota to Melamphaes
Credits silhouette · photo · length
  • Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Beryx splendens · source
  • Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
  • Length · fishbase
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 ↗