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Artedius fenestralis

Padded sculpin

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 279700ITIS 167212GBIF 2333969key worms:279700
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167212 via WoRMS external link

Artedius fenestralis, the padded sculpin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. The species is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, with a range extending from the Alaska Peninsula to Southern California.W CalCOFI holds 22 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1961 and 2022, as larva.R

22
observations
22
records
22
sampling events
1961–2022
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
14 cm
max length
Artedius fenestralis at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego, California, USA.
Photo · Stickpen · 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.

  • 22 obs22 events1961–2022larva
    name used: Artedius fenestralis Padded sculpin · code 745

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:279700%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 14 cm max
Padded sculpin14 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 Artedius
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus · source
  • Photo · Stickpen · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Artedius fenestralis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355342646
  • 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, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗