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Lutjanus

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 159791ITIS 168846GBIF 2356953key worms:159791
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168846 via WoRMS external link

Lutjanus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 42 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2006, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

42
observations
42
records
32
sampling events
1959–2006
years
1
datasets
3
species under it
larva
life stages
Grey snapper (aka Mangrove snapper, Lutjanus griseus). Taken in the US Virgin Islands.
Photo · Clinton & Charles Robertson from Del Rio, Texas & San Marcos, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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.

  • 32 obs32 events1959–2006larva
    name used: Lutjanus · code 454

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:159791%22

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 3 taxa · Lutjanus peru most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Lutjanidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lutjanus · source
  • Photo · Clinton & Charles Robertson from Del Rio, Texas & San Marcos, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Lutjanus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1368525774
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 ↗