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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Cabezon

WoRMS 282726ITIS 692068GBIF 5201222key worms:282726
Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca
Cabezon99 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

The cabezon Scorpaenichthys marmoratus is well known for its large head. This photo was taken with a strobe at high power.
Photo · Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons

The cabezon is a large species of sculpin native to the Pacific coast of North America. Although the generic name translates literally as "scorpion fish", true scorpionfish belong to the related family Scorpaenidae.W CalCOFI holds 1,280 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva.R

1,280
observations
1,280
records
1,280
sampling events
1951–2022
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 1,280 obs · 1,280 events · 1951–2022 · larva
    name used: Scorpaenichthys marmoratus Cabezon · code 736

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:282726%22