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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bodianus pulcher

California sheephead

WoRMS 1702292ITIS 170744GBIF 2384402key worms:1702292
Silhouette · Ieuan Jones · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Labrus bergylta
California sheephead91 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

The California sheephead (Bodianus pulcher, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Its range is from Monterey Bay, California, to the Gulf of California, Mexico.W CalCOFI holds 278 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1955 and 2022, as larva and egg.R

278
observations
278
records
278
sampling events
1955–2022
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
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 278 obs · 278 events · 1955–2022 · larva · egg
    name used: Bodianus pulcher California sheephead · code 641

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:1702292%22