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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sargocentron suborbitale

Tinsel squirrelfish

WoRMS 1021098ITIS 622127GBIF 7193466key worms:1021098
Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Holocentridae
Tinsel squirrelfish25.4 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · fishbase

Sargocentron suborbitale, Campamento de Playa Blanco, Veraguas Province, Panama
Photo · rmcminds · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Sargocentron suborbitale, the tinsel squirrelfish, is a species of squirrelfish belonging to the genus Sargocentron. It can be found in the East Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California to Ecuador including the Galapagos Islands.W CalCOFI holds 8 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2006, as larva.R

8
observations
8
records
8
sampling events
1987–2006
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 8 obs · 8 events · 1987–2006 · larva
    name used: Sargocentron suborbitalis Tinsel squirrelfish · code 389 synonym

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/.

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:1021098%22