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Paralabrax clathratus

Kelp bass

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 282054ITIS 167832key worms:282054
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167832 via WoRMS external link

Paralabrax clathratus, the kelp bass, bull bass or calico bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, from the subfamily Serraninae, classified as part of the family Serranidae which includes the groupers and anthias.W CalCOFI holds 72 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2019, as larva.R

72
observations
72
records
72
sampling events
1959–2019
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
72 cm
max length
This kelp bass (Paralabrax clathratus) was photographed in the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Photo · Steve Lonhart/MBNMS · Public domain · 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.

  • 72 obs72 events1959–2019larva
    name used: Paralabrax clathratus Kelp bass · code 429

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:282054%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 72 cm max
Kelp bass72 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 Paralabrax
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistFishBaseGBIF

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 ↗