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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Alectis

WoRMS 125933ITIS 168600key worms:125933
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168600 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Caranx crysos

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 Alectis
Photo · DavidR.808 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Alectis is a genus of fish in the family Carangidae containing three extant species, all of which are large marine fishes. They are commonly known as threadfish, diamond trevallies or pompanos, although they have no close affiliation with the true pompano genus.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2006.R

10
observations
10
records
1963–2006
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125933")