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Typhlogobius californiensis

Blind goby

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

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
8.3 cm
max length
Heads of a juvenile (top) and adult (bottom) blind goby (Typhlogobius californiensis Steindachner, 1879)
Photo · Carl L. Hubbs · 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.

  • 210 obs210 events1959–2022larva
    name used: Typhlogobius californiensis Blind goby · code 801

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:283075%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 8.3 cm max · hatching 3–3.3 mm
Blind goby8.3 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 Typhlogobius
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
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 ↗