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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Ctenochaetus

WoRMS 204635ITIS 172305key worms:204635
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172305 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Andy Wilson · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Ctenochaetus strigosus

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).

Photo of Ctenochaetus strigosus at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego
Photo · Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Ctenochaetus, or bristletooth tangs, is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, which includes the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes and tangs. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002.R

1
observations
1
records
2002
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:204635")