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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Myrophis vafer

Pacific worm eel

WoRMS 275496ITIS 161454GBIF 2404575key worms:275496
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161454 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Monognathus
Pacific worm eel47 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Myrophis vafer
Photo · nedrifle · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Pacific worm eel is an eel in the family Ophichthidae. It was described by David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert in 1883.W CalCOFI holds 16 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva.R

16
observations
16
records
16
sampling events
1959–2006
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 16 obs · 16 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Myrophis vafer Pacific worm eel · code 392

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:275496%22