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Hypsoblennius proteus

Socorro blenny

WoRMS 276330ITIS 636384GBIF 2395551key worms:276330
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2026-08-05: itis_id 636384 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes
Socorro blenny2.6 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Hypsoblennius proteus
Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Hypsoblennius proteus, commonly known as the Socorro blenny, is a species of combtooth blenny found in the eastern central Pacific Ocean. It is endemic to the waters around the island of Socorro in the Revillagigedo Islands of Colima state in western Mexico.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 1990, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1990
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 1 obs · 1 events · 1990 · larva
    name used: Hypsoblennius proteus · code 863

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:276330%22