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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Paricelinus hopliticus

Thornback sculpin

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

Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca
Thornback sculpin20 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Paricelinus hopliticus
Photo · Jennifer Long · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 11 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2010, as larva.R

11
observations
11
records
11
sampling events
1959–2010
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 11 obs · 11 events · 1959–2010 · larva
    name used: Paricelinus hopliticus Thornback sculpin · code 750

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:282147%22