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Desmodema lorum

Whiptail ribbonfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 275872ITIS 166351GBIF 2400481key worms:275872
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166351 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 34 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1961 and 2014, as larva.R

34
observations
34
records
34
sampling events
1961–2014
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
1.1 m
max length
Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 34 obs34 events1961–2014larva
    name used: Desmodema lorum Whiptail ribbonfish · code 385

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:275872%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 1.1 m max · egg 2.4–2.5 mm
Whiptail ribbonfish1.1 m
a person1.7 m

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 12 ranks · Biota to Desmodema
Credits silhouette · length
  • Silhouette · lilychughes · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Lampris guttatus · source
  • Length · worms_attribute
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, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗