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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Plectobranchus

WoRMS 270451ITIS 171591key worms:270451
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171591 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca

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).

Photograph of Plectobranchus
Photo · Tom Benson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · gbif NC

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 29 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2016.R

29
observations
29
records
1960–2016
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:270451")