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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Artedius lateralis

Smoothhead sculpin

WoRMS 279702ITIS 167214GBIF 2333966key worms:279702
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167214 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus
Smoothhead sculpin14 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Smoothhead Sculpin (Artedius lateralis)
Photo · André Giraldi · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Artedius lateralis, also known as the smoothhead sculpin or round-nosed sculpin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins.W CalCOFI holds 135 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva.R

135
observations
135
records
135
sampling events
1959–2022
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 135 obs · 135 events · 1959–2022 · larva
    name used: Artedius lateralis Smoothhead sculpin · code 748

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:279702%22