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Hypsoblennius gentilis

Bay blenny

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 276323ITIS 171158GBIF 2395562key worms:276323
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171158 via WoRMS external link

Hypsoblennius gentilis, commonly known as the bay blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern-central Pacific Ocean. This species grows to a length of 15 centimetres (5.9 in) TL.W CalCOFI holds 156 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2018, as larva.R

156
observations
156
records
156
sampling events
1959–2018
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
15 cm
max length
Photograph of Hypsoblennius gentilis
Photo · Alex Bairstow · 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.

  • 156 obs156 events1959–2018larva
    name used: Hypsoblennius gentilis Bay blenny · code 852

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:276323%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 15 cm max · egg 12–14 mm
Bay blenny15 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 13 ranks · Biota to Hypsoblennius
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 ↗