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Sebastes ovalis

Speckled rockfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 274830ITIS 166757GBIF 2335567key worms:274830
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166757 via WoRMS external link

Sebastes ovalis, the speckled 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 deep rocky areas of the Eastern Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 83 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2013, as larva.R

83
observations
83
records
83
sampling events
1998–2013
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
56 cm
max length
Speckled rockfish (Sebastes ovalis) observed off Point Sur during a sanctuary seafloor monitoring survey using the Delta submersible.
Photo · Rick Starr (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons

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.

  • 83 obs83 events1998–2013larva
    name used: Sebastes ovalis Speckled rockfish · code 3039

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:274830%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
Speckled rockfish56 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
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 ↗