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Sebastes crameri

Darkblotched rockfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274785ITIS 166715GBIF 2335443key worms:274785
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166715 via WoRMS external link

The darkblotched rockfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a rockfish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae of the scorpionfish family Scorpaenidae. This is a deepwater species of the North Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2004 and 2004, as larva.R

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observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2004
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
58 cm
max length
Photograph of Sebastes crameri
Photo · Douglas J. Long · 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.

  • 1 obs1 events2004larva
    name used: Sebastes crameri Darkblotched rockfish · code 3022

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:274785%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 58 cm max
Darkblotched rockfish58 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
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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 Sebastes
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops · source
  • Photo · Douglas J. Long · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Darkblotched rockfish” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355158035
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
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 ↗