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Trichiuridae

Cutlassfishes

WoRMS 125571ITIS 172378GBIF 8600key worms:125571
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172378 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix

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 Trichiuridae
Photo · david_atkinson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The cutlassfishes are about 45 species of predatory ray-finned fish in the family Trichiuridae of the order Scombriformes found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise to their name.W CalCOFI holds 608 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2017, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

608
observations
608
records
270
sampling events
1951–2017
years
1
datasets
5
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 270 obs · 270 events · 1951–1990 · larva
    name used: Trichiuridae Cutlassfishes · code 595

Under it · 3 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:125571%22