Carangiformes
Carangiformes is a large and diverse order of ray-finned fishes within the clade Percomorpha. It is part of a sister clade to the Ovalentaria, alongside its sister group, the Anabantaria.W CalCOFI holds 30,248 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 34 taxa under it.R
- 30,248
- observations
- 101,016
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 3
- datasets
- 22
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 5 taxa · Carangidae 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:1517532")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:1517532'").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 5 taxa · Carangidae most observed
- F Carangidae Jacks100,127
- F Coryphaenidae Dolphinfishes858
- F Istiophoridae Billfishes22
- F Echeneidae Remoras6
- F Nematistiidae roosterfish3
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Cee Nell · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Centropomidae · source
- Photo · Kai Squires · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Carangiformes” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1370586570
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist
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 ↗