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Scorpaena guttata

California scorpionfish (sculpin)

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274713ITIS 166827GBIF 2334627key worms:274713
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166827 via WoRMS external link

Scorpaena guttata is a species of fish in the scorpionfish family known by the common name California scorpionfish. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it can be found along the coast of California and Baja California.W CalCOFI holds 107 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2019, as larva and egg.R

107
observations
107
records
107
sampling events
1959–2019
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
life stages
43 cm
max length
Photograph of Scorpaena guttata
Photo · Kai · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 107 obs107 events1959–2019larva · egg
    name used: Scorpaena guttata California scorpionfish (sculpin) · code 678

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:274713%22

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 43 cm max
California scorpionfish43 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages larva · egg
  • Ichthyoplankton larva · egg

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 14 ranks · Biota to Scorpaena
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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 ↗