Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Calamus

WoRMS 159240key worms:159240

Silhouette · Erika Schumacher · CC BY-NC 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Archosargus probatocephalus

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 Calamus — Photo · Squidpastry · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Calamus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. Most of the species in this genus are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean, with 2 species occurring in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 54 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 1999.R

54
observations: 54
records: 1959–1999
years: 1
datasets

Observed in

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

Under it · 1 taxon

sp Calamus brachysomus Pacific porgy54

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:159240")

Calamus

Observed in

Under it · 1 taxon

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/.