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Chirolophis decoratus

decorated warbonnet

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 254576ITIS 171572GBIF 2394964key worms:254576
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171572 via WoRMS external link

The decorated warbonnet is a fish of the family Stichaeidae. The species name, decoratus, is a Latin word meaning ornamented.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2016 and 2016, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2016
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
42 cm
max length
decorated warbonnet (Chirolophis decoratus) Image ID: fish4024, NOAA's Fisheries Collection Location: Alaska, Juneau
Photo · David Csepp, NMFS/AKFSC/ABL · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 1 obs1 events2016larva
    name used: Chirolophis decoratus decorated warbonnet · code 2009

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:254576%22

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 42 cm max
decorated warbonnet42 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 larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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 Chirolophis
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · David Csepp, NMFS/AKFSC/ABL · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Decorated warbonnet” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1353749704
  • 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, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗