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Sarda chiliensis

Pacific bonito

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 293729ITIS 172408key worms:293729
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172408 via WoRMS external link

Sarda chiliensis, the eastern Pacific bonito, is a marine species of bonito. It ranges from Ecuador to Chile.W CalCOFI holds 239 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2019, as larva and egg.R

239
observations
239
records
234
sampling events
1956–2019
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
life stages
1 m
max length
Photograph of Sarda chiliensis
Photo · nmoorhatch · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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.

  • 239 obs234 events1956–2019larva · egg
    name used: Sarda chiliensis Pacific bonito · code 571

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:293729%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 1 m max
Pacific bonito1 m
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 · egg
  • Ichthyoplankton larva · egg

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 Sarda
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistFishBaseGBIF

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 ↗