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Scombridae

Mackerels

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

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 4,260 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2022, as larva, across 14 taxa under it.R

4,260
observations
4,260
records
57
sampling events
1951–2022
years
2
datasets
8
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Scombridae
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 57 obs57 events1952–2003larva
    name used: Scombridae Mackerels · code 560

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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

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 1 taxon
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 Scombriformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Scomber australasicus · source
  • Photo · NOAA Photo Library · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Scombridae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1371938351
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗