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Lythrypnus dalli

Bluebanded goby

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 281457ITIS 171899GBIF 2376016key worms:281457
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171899 via WoRMS external link

The blue-banded goby is a member of the Gobiidae family, found abundantly in rocky reefs of the Pacific Ocean, ranging from Morro Bay, California to the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.W CalCOFI holds 99 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva.R

99
observations
99
records
99
sampling events
1959–2022
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
6.4 cm
max length
Bluebanded Gobies, San Clemente Island, Channel Islands, California. Image taken by Clark Anderson/Aquaimages.
Photo · The original uploader was Aquaimages at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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.

  • 99 obs99 events1959–2022larva
    name used: Lythrypnus dalli Bluebanded goby · code 799

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:281457%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 6.4 cm max · hatching 2–2.2 mm
Bluebanded goby6.4 cm
US quarter2.4 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 Lythrypnus
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 ↗