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Xeneretmus latifrons

Blackedge poacher

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 283171ITIS 167467GBIF 2337122key worms:283171
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167467 via WoRMS external link

The blacktip poacher is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1890.W CalCOFI holds 55 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2022, as larva.R

55
observations
55
records
55
sampling events
1960–2022
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
19 cm
max length
Blacktip poacher (Xeneretmus latifrons) Image ID: expl2936, Voyage To Inner Space - Exploring the Seas With NOAA Collect Location: California, Channel Islands, Santa Cruz Is. area Photo Date: 2011 Apr
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons

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.

  • 55 obs55 events1960–2022larva
    name used: Xeneretmus latifrons Blackedge poacher · code 764

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:283171%22

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 19 cm max
Blackedge poacher19 cm
bongo net ring71 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 14 ranks · Biota to Xeneretmus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hemitripterus americanus · source
  • Photo · NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Blacktip poacher” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1348995830
  • 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

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, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗