Albatrossia

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 236134ITIS 165426key worms:236134

2026-08-05: itis_id 165426 via WoRMS external link

Albatrossia pectoralis, the giant grenadier or giant rattail, is a very large rattail, and the only member of the genus Albatrossia. It is found in the north Pacific from northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering Seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, and south to northern Baja California in Mexico.W CalCOFI holds 25 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2016.R

25
observations: 25
records: 1959–2016
years: 1
datasets

Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:236134")

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 1 taxon

sp Albatrossia pectoralis Giant grenadier25

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Macrourinae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · Sarah Alewijnse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaenoides armatus · source
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Albatrossia” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1358883070

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

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