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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Odontopyxis trispinosa

Pygmy poacher

WoRMS 281836ITIS 167460GBIF 2337272key worms:281836
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167460 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hemitripterus americanus
Pygmy poacher9.5 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Odontopyxis trispinosa
Photo · Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The pygmy poacher is a species of poacher that is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean along the North American coast from southern Alaska to northern Mexico. This species occurs at depths of from 9 to 373 metres.W CalCOFI holds 159 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2021, as larva.R

159
observations
159
records
159
sampling events
1959–2021
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 159 obs · 159 events · 1959–2021 · larva
    name used: Odontopyxis trispinosa Pygmy poacher · code 762

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:281836%22