Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Coryphaenidae

Dolphinfishes

WoRMS 125531ITIS 168789GBIF 4262key worms:125531

2026-08-05: itis_id 168789 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Russell Engelman · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaena hippurus

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).

Photograph of Coryphaenidae — Photo · CH Hemphill · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Coryphaena is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes, and is currently the only known genus in the family Coryphaenidae. The generic name is from Greek κορυφή and -αινα.W CalCOFI holds 854 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2006, across 3 taxa under it.R

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observations: 854
records: 1956–2006
years: 1
datasets: 2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

G Coryphaena854

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125531")

Coryphaenidae

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.