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Lepidopus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126097ITIS 172390key worms:126097
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172390 via WoRMS external link

Lepidopus is a genus of cutlassfishes.W CalCOFI holds 308 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2017, across 2 taxa under it.R

308
observations
308
records
1959–2017
years
1
datasets
2
species under it
Photograph of Lepidopus
Photo · FAO · 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 — 2 taxa · Lepidopus fitchi most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126097")

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 · Lepidopus fitchi most observed
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Lepidopodinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗