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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Gillichthys mirabilis

Longjaw mudsucker

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

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gobiidae
Longjaw mudsucker21 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

California longjaw mudsucker (Gillichthys mirabilis)
Photo · Digimancer · CC BY 3.0 · commons

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

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 3 obs · 3 events · 1975–2008 · larva
    name used: Gillichthys mirabilis Longjaw mudsucker · code 2115

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:280851%22