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Hypsoblennius proteus

Socorro blenny

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

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
2.6 cm
max length
Photograph of Hypsoblennius proteus
Photo · Alberto Alcalá · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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.

  • 1 obs1 events1990larva
    name used: Hypsoblennius proteus · code 863

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:276330%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 2.6 cm max · transformation 16–18.4 mm
Socorro blenny2.6 cm
US quarter2.4 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 ↗