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Lythrypnus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 269761ITIS 171898GBIF 2375993key worms:269761
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171898 via WoRMS external link

Lythrypnus is a genus of gobies native to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas including Cocos Island and the Galapagos Islands. Lythrypnus is a hermaphroditic fish that is able to change sex.W CalCOFI holds 272 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

272
observations
272
records
15
sampling events
1959–2022
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Bluebanded Gobies, San Clemente Island, Channel Islands, California. Image taken by Clark Anderson/Aquaimages.
Photo · The original uploader was Aquaimages at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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.

  • 15 obs15 events1959–2017larva
    name used: Lythrypnus · code 798

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:269761%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 not on record

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

Under it 2 taxa · Lythrypnus zebra most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Gobiinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lythrypnus dalli · source
  • Photo · The original uploader was Aquaimages at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Lythrypnus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366729966
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗