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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hexagrammos decagrammus

Kelp greenling

WoRMS 240732ITIS 167110GBIF 2336472key worms:240732
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167110 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tessa Rehill · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hexagrammos decagrammus
Kelp greenling61 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Kelp Greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus)
Photo · André Giraldi · CC BY 4.0 · commons

The kelp greenling is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Hexagrammidae, the greenlings. It occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean…W CalCOFI holds 311 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1964 and 2023, as larva.R

311
observations
311
records
311
sampling events
1964–2023
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 311 obs · 311 events · 1964–2023 · larva
    name used: Hexagrammos decagrammus Kelp greenling · code 718

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:240732%22