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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sebastolobus altivelis

Longspine thornyhead

WoRMS 282741ITIS 166784GBIF 2335322key worms:282741
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166784 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Harold Eyster · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sebastes melanops
Longspine thornyhead39 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Longspine thornyhead rockfish (Sebastolobus altivelis)
Photo · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · Public domain · commons

Sebastolobus altivelis, the longspine thornyhead, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is found in deep waters of the northeastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 68 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2016, as larva.R

68
observations
68
records
68
sampling events
1959–2016
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 68 obs · 68 events · 1959–2016 · larva
    name used: Sebastolobus altivelis Longspine thornyhead · code 709

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:282741%22