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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Borophryne apogon

Netdevil

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

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Haplophryne mollis
Netdevil8.3 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1912 - 1936: page 142
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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

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 5 obs · 5 events · 1961–2006 · larva
    name used: Borophryne apogon Netdevil · code 972

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:279941%22