Sebastes levis

These images are larval cowcod, which is a species of rockfish. The specimens in the top of the image were collected in a bongo tow in April 2006 at CalCOFI station 83.3 42.0 aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography vessel New Horizon. The larva on the left is 3.3 mm and the one on the right is 3.1 mm. The 7.4 mm flexion stage larva (bottom) was collected in a bongo tow in April 2009 at station 95.45 during the SWFSC's California Current Ecosystem Survey aboard the Canadian commercial fishing vessel Frosti.