Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Kyphosus ocyurus

Bluestriped sea chub

WoRMS 1018702ITIS 169527key worms:1018702

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Kyphosus cinerascens

Bluestriped sea chub59 cm

bongo net ring71 cm

Photograph of Kyphosus ocyurus — Photo · Programa Marino del Golfo de California · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Kyphosus ocyurus, the blue-striped chub or rainbow chub, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae. The species is found in the Pacific Ocean where it prefers rocky substrates.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2000 and 2000, as larva.R

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observations: 1
records: 1
sampling events: 2000
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2000 · larva
name used: Sectator ocyurus Bluestriped sea chub · code 665 synonym

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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1018702%22

Kyphosus ocyurus

How big is itiEvery 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 iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it
i
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/.