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Lythrypnus

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

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lythrypnus dalli

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).

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

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 271 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

271
observations
271
records
15
sampling events
1959–2022
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 15 obs · 15 events · 1959–2017 · larva
    name used: Lythrypnus · code 798

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:269761%22