CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem

Sebastes goodei

Chilipepper

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274798ITIS 166722GBIF 2335531key worms:274798
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 166722 via WoRMS external link

Sebastes goodei, the chilipepper rockfish and chilipepper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. This species lives mainly off the coast of western North America from Baja California to Vancouver.W CalCOFI holds 926 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva.R

926
observations
926
records
926
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
56 cm
max length
Photograph of Sebastes goodei
Photo · Lauren Martin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in 1 dataset
i

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.

  • 926 obs926 events1951–2023larva
    name used: Sebastes goodei Chilipepper · code 693

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:274798%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 56 cm max · hatching 4.5–5.8 mm
Chilipepper56 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 · Lauren Martin · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Sebastes goodei” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354949933
  • 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 ↗