Tetragonurus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172579 via WoRMS external link
The squaretails are a genus, Tetragonurus, of scombriform ray-finned fishes, the only genus in the family Tetragonuridae.W CalCOFI holds 1,847 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 1,847
- observations
- 1,847
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 2
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Tetragonurus cuvieri most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis 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:126093")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126093'").df()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 2 taxa · Tetragonurus cuvieri most observed
- sp Tetragonurus cuvieri Smalleye squaretail1,842
- sp Tetragonurus atlanticus Bigeye squaretail5
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Tetragonuridae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix · source
- Photo · ©MCNB · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Squaretail” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1256173347
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗