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Borophryne apogon

Netdevil

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 279941ITIS 622907GBIF 2414385key worms:279941
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2026-08-05: itis_id 622907 via WoRMS external link

Borophryne apogon, the netdevil or greedy seadevil, is a species of leftvent anglerfish known today from the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean off the Central American coast. It is found at depths down to around 1,750 m (5,700 ft).W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1961 and 2006, as larva.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
1961–2006
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
8.3 cm
max length
Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1912 - 1936: page 142
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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.

  • 5 obs5 events1961–2006larva
    name used: Borophryne apogon Netdevil · code 972

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:279941%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 8.3 cm max · flexion 3.5–4 mm
Netdevil8.3 cm
US quarter2.4 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 Borophryne
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 ↗