Labridae
Wrasses
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170477 via WoRMS external link
The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine ray-finned fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 81 genera, which are divided into eight subfamilies.W CalCOFI holds 2,741 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 18 taxa under it.R
- 2,741
- observations
- 2,741
- records
- 788
- sampling events
- 1951–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 9
- species under it
- larva
- life stages
Observed in 1 dataseti
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.
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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.
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name used: Labridae Wrasses · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125541")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125541'").df()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 6 taxa · Julidinae most observed
- sF Julidinae1,592
- sF Hypsigenyinae280
- sF Xyrichtyinae43
- sF Scarinae Parrotfishes29
- sF Cirrhilabrinae7
- sF Cheilininae2
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 Eupercaria incertae sedis
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Ieuan Jones · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Labrus bergylta · source
- Photo · Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Wrasse” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1369568150
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗