Chanidae

milkfish

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 154432ITIS 162836key worms:154432

2026-08-05: itis_id 162836 via WoRMS external link

Chanidae is a family of fishes which has a number of fossil genera and one monotypic extant genus which contains the milkfish.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 2003.R

4
observations: 4
records: 1998–2003
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, 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:154432")

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 1 taxon

G Chanos4

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Gonorynchiformes

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Chanos chanos · source
Photo · Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Chanidae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1361023541

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

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

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