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Dormitator latifrons

Pacific fat sleeper

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 276408ITIS 171918GBIF 2386419key worms:276408
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171918 via WoRMS external link

Dormitator latifrons, the Pacific fat sleeper, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae found on the Pacific coast of the Americas from around Palos Verdes, California, to Peru, where it can be found in stagnant or sluggish fresh or brackish waters or nearby marine waters.W CalCOFI holds 14 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2003, as larva.R

14
observations
14
records
14
sampling events
1960–2003
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
41 cm
max length
Photograph of Dormitator latifrons
Photo · Arthur de Jesús Chavarría Pérez · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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.

  • 14 obs14 events1960–2003larva
    name used: Dormitator latifrons Pacific fat sleeper · code 803

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:276408%22

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 41 cm max
Pacific fat sleeper41 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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 13 ranks · Biota to Dormitator
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
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, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗