Gibbonsia metzi
striped kelpfish
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171398 via WoRMS external link
Gibbonsia metzi, the striped kelpfish, is a species of clinid native to the Pacific coast of North America from British Columbia, Canada, to Baja California, Mexico. It can be found in tide pools and in kelp beds down to a depth of about 9 metres (30 ft).W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1964 and 1964, as larva.R
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- observations
- 1
- records
- 1
- sampling events
- 1964
- years
- 1
- datasets
- larva
- life stages
- 24 cm
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
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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.
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name used: Gibbonsia metzi · code
2016
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:280835")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:280835'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 24 cm max
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 12 ranks · Biota to Gibbonsia
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Meiacanthus grammistes · source
- Photo · Cricket Raspet · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Gibbonsia metzi” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1350859759
- Length · worms_attribute
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase · GBIF
WikidataiNaturalistFishBaseGBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗