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Sebastes jordani

Shortbelly rockfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274806ITIS 166725GBIF 2335495key worms:274806
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166725 via WoRMS external link

Sebastes jordani, or the shortbelly rockfish, is a bony fish within the family Scorpaenidae, the rockfishes. It is found off the Pacific coast of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California.W CalCOFI holds 3,559 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva.R

3,559
observations
3,559
records
3,559
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
32 cm
max length
Photograph of Sebastes jordani
Photo · linddealy · 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.

  • 3,559 obs3,559 events1951–2023larva
    name used: Sebastes jordani Shortbelly rockfish · code 684

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:274806%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 32 cm max · flexion 8–10 mm
Shortbelly rockfish32 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 · linddealy · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Sebastes jordani” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1345188936
  • 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 ↗