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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sardinops sagax

Pacific sardine (pilchard)

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

Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sardinops melanostictus
Pacific sardine39.5 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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Photograph of Sardinops sagax
Photo · harum.koh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

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 23,969 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as egg and larva.R

23,969
observations
62,898
records
59,338
sampling events
1951–2022
years
2
datasets
egg · 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.

  • CUFES Fish Eggs 49,572 obs · 49,572 events · 1996–2022 · egg
    name used: Sardinops sagax · code sardinops_sagax
  • Ichthyoplankton 13,326 obs · 9,766 events · 1951–2022 · larva · egg
    name used: Sardinops sagax Pacific sardine (pilchard) · code 19

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 CUFES Fish Eggs table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_cufes.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:217452%22