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Clinocottus analis

Wooly sculpin

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

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

  • 18 obs18 events1963–2023larva
    name used: Clinocottus analis Wooly sculpin · code 746

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:280219%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 18 cm max
Wooly sculpin18 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 Clinocottus
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 ↗