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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Luvarus

WoRMS 126028ITIS 172484key worms:126028
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172484 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Denis Lafage · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Dicentrarchus labrax

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

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

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:126028")