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Zaniolepis latipinnis

Longspine combfish

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 283209ITIS 167128GBIF 2336504key worms:283209
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167128 via WoRMS external link

Zaniolepis latipinnis, the longspine combfish or longspined greenling, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Zaniolepididae.The species occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 192 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2022, as larva.R

192
observations
192
records
192
sampling events
1959–2022
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
30 cm
max length
Longspine combfish (Zaniolepis latipinnis) observed off Pt Pinos during a sanctuary seafloor monitoring survey using the Delta submersible.
Photo · Linda Snook / 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.

  • 192 obs192 events1959–2022larva
    name used: Zaniolepis latipinnis Longspine combfish · code 728

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:283209%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 30 cm max
Longspine combfish30 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 Zaniolepis
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · Linda Snook / MBNMS · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Zaniolepis latipinnis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355338755
  • 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 ↗