Trachurus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168585 via WoRMS external link
Jack mackerels or saurels are marine ray-finned fish in the genus Trachurus of the family Carangidae. The name of the genus derives from the Greek words trachys ("rough") and oura ("tail").W CalCOFI holds 28,418 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023.R
- 28,418
- observations
- 99,186
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- 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:125946")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:125946'").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 Trachurus symmetricus Jack mackerel99,186
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Carangidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Trachinus draco · source
- Photo · Erik Schlögl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Trachurus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1327041091
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 ↗