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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sebastolobus

Thornyheads

WoRMS 270859ITIS 166782key worms:270859
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166782 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops

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).

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Photo · Totti · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Sebastolobus, the thornyheads, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. These fishes are native to the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 921 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

921
observations
921
records
833
sampling events
1951–2022
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 833 obs · 833 events · 1951–2022 · larva
    name used: Sebastolobus Thornyheads · code 707

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:270859%22