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Seriola lalandi

Yellowtail

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 218436ITIS 168695GBIF 5961708key worms:218436
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2026-08-05: itis_id 168695 via WoRMS external link

The yellowtail amberjack, yellowtail kingfish, hiramasa or great amberjack is a large fish found in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere. Although previously thought to be found in all oceans and seas, recent genetic analysis restricts S. lalandi proper to the Southern Hemisphere waters.W CalCOFI holds 297 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1954 and 2016, as larva and egg.R

297
observations
297
records
295
sampling events
1954–2016
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
life stages
2.5 m
max length
Yellowtail Kingfish caught (and released) in the Hauraki Gulf close to Auckland, New Zealand. This fish is below legal size in New Zealand
Photo · Nholtzha · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

  • 297 obs295 events1954–2016larva · egg
    name used: Seriola lalandi Yellowtail · code 517

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:218436%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 2.5 m max · egg 1.3–1.8 mm
Yellowtail2.5 m
a person1.7 m

max · worms_attribute

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages larva · egg
  • Ichthyoplankton larva · egg

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Seriola
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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 ↗