Chilara taylori
Spotted cusk-eel
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165006 via WoRMS external link
Chilara taylori, the spotted cusk-eel, is a species of cusk-eel found along the eastern coast of the Pacific Ocean where it is found at depths down to around 280 metres (920 ft) from Washington, United States to Ecuador. This species grows to a length of 40.4 centimetres (15.9 in) TL.W CalCOFI holds 426 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as larva.R
- 426
- observations
- 426
- records
- 426
- sampling events
- 1951–2022
- years
- 2
- datasets
- larva
- life stages
- 40.4 cm
- max length
Observed in 2 datasetsi
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.
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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.
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name used: Chilara taylori Spotted cusk-eel · code
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name used: Chilara taylori · code
Chilara taylori
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:280146")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:280146'").df()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 40.4 cm max · flexion 21–30 mm
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 Chilara
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
- Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lepophidium profundorum · source
- Photo · Helge Weissig · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Spotted cusk eel” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1315325087
- Length · worms_attribute
- Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
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 ↗