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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Clinocottus analis

Wooly sculpin

WoRMS 280219ITIS 167227GBIF 2333868key worms:280219
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167227 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus
Wooly sculpin18 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Clinocottus analis, Crystal Cove State Beach, Newport Beach, CA, US, 2025-05-31 (iNaturalist).
Photo · Roberto Daniel Avila · CC BY 4.0 · commons

The woolly sculpin is a species of ray-finned marine fish belonging to the family Cottidae, or the typical sculpins. It is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the coastline of California south to Baja California.W CalCOFI holds 18 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2023, as larva.R

18
observations
18
records
18
sampling events
1963–2023
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 18 obs · 18 events · 1963–2023 · larva
    name used: Clinocottus analis Wooly sculpin · code 746

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:280219%22