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Scarus

WoRMS 159299ITIS 170810GBIF 2371535key worms:159299
Silhouette · Aaron O'Dea · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scarus vetula

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 parrotfish (Scarus ferrugineus).
Photo · Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: albert kok) · Public domain · commons

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

Observed in
i

One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 4 obs · 4 events · 1959–2003 · larva
    name used: Scarus · code 651

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/.

Explorerdb-query
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