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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Decapterus

Scads

WoRMS 125937ITIS 168723GBIF 2391033key worms:125937
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168723 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Seriola rivoliana

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 Decapterus
Photo · moose439 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Decapterus is a genus of marine fishes of jack family, Carangidae, commonly known as mackerel scads, round scads, or horse mackerel. They are found throughout the world.W CalCOFI holds 23 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva.R

23
observations
23
records
23
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
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 23 obs · 23 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Decapterus Scads · code 508

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:125937%22