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Gillichthys mirabilis

Longjaw mudsucker

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 280851ITIS 171967GBIF 2378639key worms:280851
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171967 via WoRMS external link

The longjaw mudsucker is a species of goby found along the Pacific coast of California and Baja California. Known for its distinctive elongated jaws and robust body, this species can reach up to 21 centimetres (8 in) in length, making it one of the larger gobies in its habitat.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1975 and 2008, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
1975–2008
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
21 cm
max length
California longjaw mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis)
Photo · Digimancer · CC BY 3.0 · 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.

  • 3 obs3 events1975–2008larva
    name used: Gillichthys mirabilis Longjaw mudsucker · code 2115

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:280851%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 21 cm max · hatching 3–4 mm
Longjaw mudsucker21 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 Gillichthys
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 ↗