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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lythrypnus dalli

Bluebanded goby

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

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lythrypnus dalli
Bluebanded goby6.4 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

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

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 98 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva.R

98
observations
98
records
98
sampling events
1959–2022
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 98 obs · 98 events · 1959–2022 · larva
    name used: Lythrypnus dalli Bluebanded goby · code 799

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:281457%22