Bodianus pulcher
California sheephead
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
- 91 cm
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Bodianus pulcher California sheephead · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1702292")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1702292'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 91 cm max
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.
Life stages larva · egg
- Ichthyoplankton larva · egg
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.
Lineage 14 ranks · Biota to Bodianus
Credits silhouette · text · length
- Silhouette · Ieuan Jones · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Labrus bergylta · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “California sheephead” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1358983530
- Length · worms_attribute
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗