Stomias atriventer
Blackbelly dragonfish
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162290 via WoRMS external link
Stomias atriventer is a species of deep-sea mesopelagic fish in the genus Stomias. The species has been observed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and fully-grown adults can reach a maximum length of ~25 centimeters.W CalCOFI holds 3,203 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva and egg.R
- 3,203
- observations
- 3,203
- records
- 3,203
- sampling events
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- larva · egg
- life stages
- 25 cm
- max length
Observed in 2 datasetsi
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.
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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.
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name used: Stomias atriventer Blackbelly dragonfish · code
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name used: Stomias atriventer · code
Stomias atriventer
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:275178")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:275178'").df()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 25 cm max · egg 0.88–0.92 mm
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 · egg
- Ichthyoplankton larva · egg
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 Stomias
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Yan Wong · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Malacosteus niger · source
- Photo · Camille Ayrea · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Stomias atriventer” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362836750
- Length · worms_attribute
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
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 ↗