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Neoclinus stephensae

Yellowfin fringehead

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 281685ITIS 171479GBIF 2381426key worms:281685
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171479 via WoRMS external link

Neoclinus stephensae, the yellowfin fringehead, is a species of chaenopsid blenny found in the eastern Pacific ocean. It can reach a maximum length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.W CalCOFI holds 109 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1960 and 2019, as larva.R

109
observations
109
records
109
sampling events
1960–2019
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
10 cm
max length
Photograph of Neoclinus stephensae
Photo · Melissa Foo · CC BY-NC 4.0 · gbif NC

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.

  • 109 obs109 events1960–2019larva
    name used: Neoclinus stephensae Yellowfin fringehead · code 839

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:281685%22

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 10 cm max · flexion 7–9 mm
Yellowfin fringehead10 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 12 ranks · Biota to Neoclinus
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, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗