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Bramidae

Pomfrets

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125520ITIS 170287GBIF 8508key worms:125520
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170287 via WoRMS external link

Pomfrets are scombriform fish belonging to the family Bramidae. The family currently includes 20 species across seven genera.W CalCOFI holds 290 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

290
observations
290
records
2
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Bramidae
Photo · Ken Graham · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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.

  • 2 obs2 events1984–2000larva
    name used: Bramidae Pomfrets · code 550

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:125520%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 3 taxa · Brama most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Scombriformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗