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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cryptotrema corallinum

Deepwater kelpfish

WoRMS 280447ITIS 171472GBIF 5210278key worms:280447
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171472 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes
Deepwater kelpfish13 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Cryptotrema corallinum
Photo · Siobhan O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Cryptotrema corallinum, the deep-water blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the eastern Pacific Ocean where it is known to occur from Santa Cruz Island, California to Baja California, Mexico. It lives in areas with rocky substrates at depths of from 24 to 91 metres.W CalCOFI holds 91 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2020, as larva.R

91
observations
91
records
91
sampling events
1960–2020
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 91 obs · 91 events · 1960–2020 · larva
    name used: Cryptotrema corallinum Deepwater kelpfish · code 832

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:280447%22