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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Trachurus

WoRMS 125946ITIS 168585key worms:125946
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168585 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Richard Harris · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Trachinus draco

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 Trachurus
Photo · Erik Schlögl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 19,528 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023.R

19,528
observations
56,470
records
1951–2023
years
2
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:125946")