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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Dasyscopelus

WoRMS 296480key worms:296480
Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Myctophum punctatum

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Dasyscopelus
Photo · Makuriwa Museo de Historia Natural Marina · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Dasyscopelus is a genus of lanternfish, family Myctophidae.W CalCOFI holds 76 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1972 and 2016, across 5 taxa under it.R

76
observations
76
records
1972–2016
years
1
datasets
5
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 5 taxa

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:296480")