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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Tetragonurus

WoRMS 126093ITIS 172579key worms:126093
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172579 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix

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).

Tetragonurus cuvieri
Photo · ©MCNB · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

The squaretails are a genus, Tetragonurus, of scombriform ray-finned fishes, the only genus in the family Tetragonuridae.W CalCOFI holds 1,842 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R

1,842
observations
1,842
records
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126093")