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Paricelinus hopliticus

Thornback sculpin

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 282147ITIS 167338GBIF 2333927key worms:282147
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167338 via WoRMS external link

The thornback sculpin is a species of sculpin native to the eastern Pacific Ocean from northern British Columbia, Canada to southern California, United States. It can be found from near the shore to 183 metres (600 ft) deep.W CalCOFI holds 13 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2010, as larva.R

13
observations
13
records
13
sampling events
1959–2010
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
20 cm
max length
Photograph of Paricelinus hopliticus
Photo · Jennifer Long · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat 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.

  • 13 obs13 events1959–2010larva
    name used: Paricelinus hopliticus Thornback sculpin · code 750

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:282147%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 20 cm max
Thornback sculpin20 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 Paricelinus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · Jennifer Long · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Thornback sculpin” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362687089
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
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 ↗