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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Rhynchoconger nitens

Bignose nitens

WoRMS 275426ITIS 635725GBIF 2403422key worms:275426
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2026-08-05: itis_id 635725 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus
Bignose nitens40 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Rhynchoconger nitens
Photo · natividadm · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The bignose conger is an eel in the family Congridae. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Harvey Bollman in 1890.W CalCOFI holds 20 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2003, as larva.R

20
observations
20
records
20
sampling events
1959–2003
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 20 obs · 20 events · 1959–2003 · larva
    name used: Rhynchoconger nitens Bignose nitens · code 362

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:275426%22