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Synchirus gilli

Manacled sculpin

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 282921ITIS 167365GBIF 2334298key worms:282921
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167365 via WoRMS external link

The manacled sculpin is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This fish is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean where it occurs along the coast from Alaska to southern California.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2006 and 2006, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2006
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
7 cm
max length
Photograph of Synchirus gilli
Photo · Neil McDaniel · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 obs1 events2006larva
    name used: Synchirus gilli Manacled sculpin · code 1540

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:282921%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 7 cm max
Manacled sculpin7 cm
US quarter2.4 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 Synchirus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus · source
  • Photo · Neil McDaniel · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Manacled sculpin” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1360210067
  • 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 ↗