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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scombridae

Mackerels

WoRMS 125559ITIS 172398GBIF 8596key worms:125559
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172398 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Scomber australasicus

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 Scombridae
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Scombridae is a family of marine ray-finned fish that consists of 51 extant species in 15 genera and two subfamilies, many of which are the most important and familiar commercial food fishes.W CalCOFI holds 4,254 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 13 taxa under it.R

4,254
observations
4,254
records
57
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
8
species under it
larva
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 57 obs · 57 events · 1952–2003 · larva
    name used: Scombridae Mackerels · code 560

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125559%22