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Pristigenys

WoRMS 159293ITIS 168188key worms:159293
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168188 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Maddie Gasparro · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Priacanthus hamrur

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).

Short bigeye ( Pristigenys alta ). Gulf of Mexico.
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC. · Public domain · commons

Pristigenys is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family Priacanthidae. It contains five extant species and one extinct species, P. substriata, which is known from fossils found in the Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1990 and 2000.R

2
observations
2
records
1990–2000
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

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:159293")