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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Macrourinae

WoRMS 154232ITIS 550565key worms:154232
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2026-08-05: itis_id 550565 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Sarah Alewijnse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaenoides armatus

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).

A grenadier investigates the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration remotely operated underwater vehicle Deep Discoverer off Puerto Rico.
Photo · NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research · Public domain · commons

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

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 4 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154232")