Alectis
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168600 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:125933")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125933'").df()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
- sp Alectis ciliaris African pompano10
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Carangidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · John Hlavin · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Caranx crysos · source
- Photo · DavidR.808 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Alectis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354736730
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
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 ↗