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Scorpaenichthys marmoratus

Cabezon

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 282726ITIS 692068GBIF 5201222key worms:282726

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 1,285 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva.R

1,285
observations
1,285
records
1,285
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
99 cm
max length
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

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.

  • 1,285 obs1,285 events1951–2022larva
    name used: Scorpaenichthys marmoratus Cabezon · code 736

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:282726%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 99 cm max
Cabezon99 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 Scorpaenichthys
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · Steve Lonhart (SIMoN / MBNMS) · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Cabezon (fish)” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1364738015
  • 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 ↗