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Chloroscombrus

Bumpers

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159481ITIS 168669GBIF 2391078key worms:159481
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168669 via WoRMS external link

Chloroscombrus is a genus containing two species of tropical to temperate water marine fish in the jack and horse mackerel family Carangidae. Both members are commonly known as bumpers or bumperfish, with one species endemic to the Atlantic and the other to the eastern Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 84 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006.R

84
observations
84
records
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
Chloroscombrus chrysurus from the Gulf of Mexico
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain · commons

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 inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:159481")

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
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Carangidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Seriola rivoliana · source
  • Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Chloroscombrus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354656043
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, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗