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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sebastes aurora

Aurora rockfish

WoRMS 274774ITIS 166709GBIF 2335398key worms:274774
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166709 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops
Aurora rockfish41 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Sebastes aurora
Photo · NOAA · Public domain · commons

Sebastes aurora, the aurora rockfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 1,015 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva.R

1,015
observations
1,015
records
1,015
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
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 1,015 obs · 1,015 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Sebastes aurora Aurora rockfish · code 688

How big is it
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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.

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:274774%22