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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Polylepion cruentum

Bleeding Wrasse

WoRMS 282314ITIS 614109GBIF 2384425key worms:282314
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2026-08-05: itis_id 614109 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Ieuan Jones · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Labrus bergylta
Bleeding Wrasse24 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Polylepion cruentum
Photo · FAO · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The bleeding wrasse is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in reefs in the eastern central Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 1963, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1963
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 1 obs · 1 events · 1963 · larva
    name used: Polylepion cruentum Bleeding Wrasse · code 643

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:282314%22