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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cherublemma emmelas

Black brotula

WoRMS 280144ITIS 164998GBIF 2345897key worms:280144
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164998 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum
Black brotula25 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Zoology Accessions Register: Reptiles & Fishes: 1893 - 1903: page 111
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Cherublemma emmelas, the black brotula, is a species of cusk-eel found along the Pacific coast of Central and South America from Baja California to Chile. It occurs at depths of from 102 to 740 metres.W CalCOFI holds 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2006, as larva.R

19
observations
19
records
19
sampling events
1972–2006
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 19 obs · 19 events · 1972–2006 · larva
    name used: Cherublemma emmelas Black brotula · code 873

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:280144%22