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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lutjanidae

Snappers

WoRMS 151453ITIS 168845GBIF 8542key worms:151453
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168845 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lutjanus

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 Lutjanidae
Photo · Glen Whisson · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Lutjanidae, the snappers and fusiliers, are a family of percomorph fishes, mainly marine but with some members inhabiting estuaries and, in some cases, fresh water. The family includes about 113 species.W CalCOFI holds 52 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva, across 6 taxa under it.R

52
observations
52
records
9
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
4
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 9 obs · 9 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Lutjanidae Snappers · code 450

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:151453%22