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Coryphaena

WoRMS 125960ITIS 168790GBIF 2369535key worms:125960
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168790 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Antonio Medina · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sarda sarda

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 Coryphaena
Photo · Gonzalo Mucientes Sandoval · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Coryphaena is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes known as the dolphinfishes, and is currently the only known genus in the family Coryphaenidae. The generic name is from Greek κορυφή and -αινα.W CalCOFI holds 854 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2006, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

854
observations
854
records
12
sampling events
1956–2006
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
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 12 obs · 12 events · 1972–2006 · larva
    name used: Coryphaena · code 554

Under it · 2 taxa

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:125960%22