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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Chloroscombrus

Bumpers

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

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Seriola rivoliana

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).

Chloroscombrus chrysurus from the Gulf of Mexico
Photo · SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public domain · commons

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

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:159481")