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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Luvaridae

louvar

WoRMS 125544ITIS 172483key worms:125544
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172483 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Denis Lafage · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dicentrarchus labrax

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 Luvaridae
Photo · kayablown · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Luvaridae is a family of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the suborder Acanthuroidei in the order Acanthuriformes, of which they are the only pelagic members. The family has a single extant species, the widespread louvar and a small number of known extinct species.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2003.R

3
observations
3
records
1989–2003
years
1
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

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/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125544")