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Gibbonsia

WoRMS 269206ITIS 171397GBIF 2380263key worms:269206
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171397 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Kelpfish (Gibbonsia montereyensis) blending in with coralline algae.
Photo · Photo: Chad King · Public domain · commons

Gibbonsia is a genus of clinids native to the eastern Pacific ocean. The name of this genus honours the American naturalist, physician and founder member of the California Academy of Sciences, William P. Gibbons (1812–1897).W CalCOFI holds 34 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2017, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

34
observations
34
records
32
sampling events
1960–2017
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
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 32 obs · 32 events · 1960–2017 · larva
    name used: Gibbonsia · code 841

Under it · 2 taxa

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:269206%22