Luvarus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126028ITIS 172484key worms:126028

2026-08-05: itis_id 172484 via WoRMS external link

Luvarus is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Luvaridae. It is the only extant genus in that family and its only extant species is the cosmopolitan louvar, with one fossil species known from the earliest Eocene of Turkmenistan.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1989 and 2003.R

3
observations: 3
records: 1989–2003
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Georgia Poyner，保留部分权利（CC BY-NC） · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

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 inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:126028")

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 Luvarus imperialis Louvar3

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Luvaridae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Denis Lafage · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dicentrarchus labrax · source
Photo · Georgia Poyner，保留部分权利（CC BY-NC） · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Luvarus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354644605

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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