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Lutjanus

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

Silhouette · Christopher Kenaley · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Lutjanus

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).

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

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

Observed in
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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 32 obs · 32 events · 1959–2006 · larva
    name used: Lutjanus · code 454

Under it · 3 taxa

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
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