Acanthuridae
Surgeonfishes
Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
The Acanthuridae are a family of ray-finned fishes, which includes surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes. The family includes about 86 extant species of marine fishes living in tropical seas, usually around coral reefs.W CalCOFI holds 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2002, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R
- 19
- observations
- 19
- records
- 6
- sampling events
- 1963–2002
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed ini
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.
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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.
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name used: Acanthuridae Surgeonfishes · code
585
Under it · 3 taxa
- G Naso Unicornfishes9
- G Acanthurus3
- G Ctenochaetus1
Ways ini
Read from taxa.json of release
v2026.09.11, written at release
by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is
/species/.
Explorerdb-queryi
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125515")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125515'").df()