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Bathophilus flemingi

Highfin dragonfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 275046ITIS 162244GBIF 5203155key worms:275046
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162244 via WoRMS external link

Bathophilus flemingi is a species of barbeled dragonfish in the genus Bathophilus. The species has been documented in the Pacific Ocean near Alaska, and fully-grown members of the species can reach a maximum length of ~16 centimeters.W CalCOFI holds 126 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1955 and 2017, as larva.R

126
observations
126
records
126
sampling events
1955–2017
years
2
datasets
larva
life stages
16 cm
max length
Photograph of Bathophilus flemingi
Photo · Alex Bairstow · 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.

  • 112 obs112 events1955–2017larva
    name used: Bathophilus flemingi Highfin dragonfish · code 133
  • 14 obs14 events2010–2012
    name used: Bathophilus flemingi · code Bathophilus flemingi

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:275046%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 16 cm max · flexion 12–15 mm
Highfin dragonfish16 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 13 ranks · Biota to Bathophilus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger · source
  • Photo · Alex Bairstow · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Bathophilus flemingi” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1303920222
  • 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

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

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