CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem
Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Naso

Unicornfishes

WoRMS 205230ITIS 172288GBIF 2379541key worms:205230
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 172288 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Naso unicornis

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).

Photograph of Naso
Photo · David R · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Naso is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family, Acanthuridae, the unicornfishes, surgeonfishes and tangs. The fishes in this genus are known commonly as unicornfishes because of the "rostral protuberance", a hornlike extension of the forehead present in some species.W CalCOFI holds 9 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as larva.R

9
observations
9
records
9
sampling events
2002
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages

Observed in
i

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 9 obs · 9 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Naso Unicornfishes · code 2210

Ways in
i

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:205230%22