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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Clupea pallasii

Pacific herring

WoRMS 151159ITIS 551209GBIF 4284072key worms:151159
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2026-08-05: itis_id 551209 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · xgirouxb · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Clupea pallasii
Pacific herring46 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Clupea pallasii
Photo · rlacroix · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Pacific herring is a species of the herring family associated with the Pacific Ocean environment of North America and northeast Asia. It is a silvery fish with unspined fins and a deeply forked caudal fin.W CalCOFI holds 5 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1992 and 2016, as larva.R

5
observations
5
records
5
sampling events
1992–2016
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 5 obs · 5 events · 1992–2016 · larva
    name used: Clupea pallasii Pacific herring · code 20

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/.

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:151159%22