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Woodsia nonsuchae

Bigeye lightfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 283166ITIS 162211GBIF 5203153key worms:283166
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162211 via WoRMS external link

CalCOFI holds 11 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2012, as larva.R

11
observations
11
records
11
sampling events
1963–2012
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
12 cm
max length
Photograph of Woodsia nonsuchae
Photo · Museum of Comparative Zoology · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 11 obs11 events1963–2012larva
    name used: Woodsia nonsuchae Bigeye lightfish · code 95

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:283166%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 12 cm max · flexion 6–8 mm
Bigeye lightfish12 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 12 ranks · Biota to Woodsia
Credits silhouette · photo · 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, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗