Plectobranchus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171591 via WoRMS external link
The bluebarred prickleback is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Opisthocentridae, the rearspine fin pricklebacks. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Plectobranchus.W CalCOFI holds 32 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2016.R
- 32
- observations
- 32
- records
- 1960–2016
- years
- 1
- datasets
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:270451")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:270451'").df()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 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 1 taxon
- sp Plectobranchus evides Bluebarred prickleback32
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Opisthocentrinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
- Photo · Tom Benson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · gbif · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Bluebarred prickleback” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355156600
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗