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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sciaenidae

Croakers

WoRMS 125558ITIS 169237GBIF 5062key worms:125558
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169237 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nick Schooler · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Menticirrhus undulatus

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 Sciaenidae
Photo · Roger Rittmaster · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Sciaenidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acanthuriformes. They are commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make.W CalCOFI holds 3,374 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva and egg, across 11 taxa under it.R

3,374
observations
3,374
records
942
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
7
species under it
larva · egg
life stages

Observed in
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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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 943 obs · 942 events · 1951–2019 · larva · egg
    name used: Sciaenidae Croakers · code 610

Under it · 9 taxa

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125558%22