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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sebastes levis

Cow rockfish (cowcod)

WoRMS 274812ITIS 166754GBIF 2335469key worms:274812
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166754 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops
Cow rockfish1 m
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Cowcod (Sebastes levis) observed off Pt Pinos during a sanctuary seafloor monitoring survey using the Delta submersible.
Photo · Rick Starr (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons

Sebastes levis, the cowcod or cow 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 Eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 380 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva.R

380
observations
380
records
380
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 380 obs · 380 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Sebastes levis Cow rockfish (cowcod) · code 685

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:274812%22