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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Macroramphosus gracilis

Slender snipefish

WoRMS 275181ITIS 551496key worms:275181
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2026-08-05: itis_id 551496 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · João Pedro Fernandes Moutinho · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Macroramphosus scolopax
Slender snipefish15 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Macroramphosus gracilis from the Gulf of Mexico
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain · commons

The slender snipefish or snipefish is a snipefish of the genus Macroramphosus. It is found in tropical oceans around the world at depths of 50 to 500 m.W CalCOFI holds 158 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2018, as larva.R

158
observations
158
records
158
sampling events
1951–2018
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 158 obs · 158 events · 1951–2018 · larva
    name used: Macroramphosus gracilis Slender snipefish · code 781

How big is it
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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.

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:275181%22