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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Typhlogobius californiensis

Blind goby

WoRMS 283075ITIS 171914GBIF 2378905key worms:283075
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2026-08-05: itis_id 171914 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gobiidae
Blind goby8.3 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · worms_attribute

Heads of a juvenile (top) and adult (bottom) blind goby (Typhlogobius californiensis Steindachner, 1879)
Photo · Carl L. Hubbs · Public domain · commons

The blind goby is a species of fish in the goby family Oxudercidae, the only species in the genus Typhlogobius. It is native to the coastlines of southern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico, where it commonly inhabits the burrows of shrimp of the genus Callianassa.W CalCOFI holds 210 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva.R

210
observations
210
records
210
sampling events
1959–2022
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 210 obs · 210 events · 1959–2022 · larva
    name used: Typhlogobius californiensis Blind goby · code 801

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:283075%22