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Microgadus proximus

Pacific tomcod

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 275873ITIS 164719GBIF 2415888key worms:275873
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2026-08-05: itis_id 164719 via WoRMS external link

Microgadus proximus, also commonly known as Pacific tomcod, is a type of cod fish found in North American coastal waters from the southeastern Bering Sea to central California. This species can reach a length of 30.5 cm (12.0 in).W CalCOFI holds 13 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1964 and 2008, as larva.R

13
observations
13
records
13
sampling events
1964–2008
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
30.5 cm
max length
Photograph of Microgadus proximus
Photo · Sara Thiebaud · 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.

  • 13 obs13 events1964–2008larva
    name used: Microgadus proximus Pacific tomcod · code 906

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:275873%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 30.5 cm max
Pacific tomcod30.5 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 12 ranks · Biota to Microgadus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Milton Tan · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gadus morhua · source
  • Photo · Sara Thiebaud · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Microgadus proximus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362847287
  • 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, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗