Macrourinae

Subfamilyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 154232ITIS 550565key worms:154232

2026-08-05: itis_id 550565 via WoRMS external link

Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae, the largest family of the suborder Macrouroidei. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this family are amongst the most abundant of the deep-sea fish.W CalCOFI holds 100 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2021, across 6 taxa under it.R

100
observations: 100
records: 1959–2021
years: 1
datasets: 4
species under it

Photo · NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research · Public domain · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Coryphaenoides most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This 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:154232")

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 4 taxa · Coryphaenoides most observed

G Coryphaenoides Grenadiers48
G Albatrossia25
G Nezumia21
G Mesovagus6

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Macrouridae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Sarah Alewijnse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaenoides armatus · source
Photo · NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Grenadiers (fish)” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354921885

Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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