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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sparidae

Porgies

WoRMS 125564ITIS 169180GBIF 5068key worms:125564
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169180 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Archosargus probatocephalus

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 Sparidae
Photo · Etrusko25, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies, is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acanthuriformes, although they were previously classified in the order Perciformes. The over 150 species are found in shallow and deep marine waters in temperate through tropical regions around the world.W CalCOFI holds 57 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2000, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

57
observations
57
records
3
sampling events
1951–2000
years
1
datasets
1
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 3 obs · 3 events · 1951–2000 · larva
    name used: Sparidae Porgies · code 605

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:125564%22