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Sardinops sagax

Pacific sardine (pilchard)

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 217452ITIS 161729GBIF 2412583key worms:217452
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2026-08-05: itis_id 161729 via WoRMS external link

Sardinops is a genus of sardines of the family Alosidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific, East Pacific, Southeastern Atlantic, and southwestern Indian oceans.W CalCOFI holds 34,703 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as egg and larva.R

34,703
observations
109,421
records
57,872
sampling events
1951–2022
years
2
datasets
egg · larva
life stages
39.5 cm
max length
Photograph of Sardinops sagax
Photo · harum.koh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 95,978 obs47,989 events1996–2022egg
    name used: Sardinops sagax · code sardinops_sagax
  • 13,443 obs9,883 events1951–2022larva · egg
    name used: Sardinops sagax Pacific sardine (pilchard) · code 19

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the CUFES Fish Eggs table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_cufes.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:217452%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 39.5 cm max · egg 1.34–2.05 mm
Pacific sardine39.5 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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 egg · larva
  • CUFES Fish Eggs 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 12 ranks · Biota to Sardinops
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sardinops melanostictus · source
  • Photo · harum.koh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Sardinops” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371053494
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗