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Scarus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159299ITIS 170810GBIF 2371535key worms:159299

Scarus is a genus of parrotfishes. With 52 currently recognised extant species, it is by far the largest parrotfish genus.W CalCOFI holds 4 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2003, as larva.R

4
observations
4
records
4
sampling events
1959–2003
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
A parrotfish (Scarus ferrugineus).
Photo · Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: albert kok) · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 4 obs4 events1959–2003larva
    name used: Scarus · code 651

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:159299%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, 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).

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Scarini
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Aaron O'Dea · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scarus vetula · source
  • Photo · Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: albert kok) · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Scarus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368634342
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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

Cite the release, v2026.10.20

Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗