Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Carangiformes

WoRMS 1517532key worms:1517532

Silhouette · Cee Nell · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Centropomidae

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 Carangiformes — Photo · Kai Squires · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 21,354 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, across 34 taxa under it.R

21,354
observations: 58,296
records: 1951–2023
years: 2
datasets: 22
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 · 5 taxa

F Carangidae Jacks57,411
F Coryphaenidae Dolphinfishes854
F Istiophoridae Billfishes22
F Echeneidae Remoras6
F Nematistiidae roosterfish3

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/.

Explorer db-query

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:1517532")

Carangiformes

Observed in

Under it · 5 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Ways in
i
Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.