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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Albatrossia

WoRMS 236134ITIS 165426key worms:236134
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165426 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Sarah Alewijnse · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Coryphaenoides armatus

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).

Zoology Accessions Register: Fishes: 1986 - 1994: page 130
Photo · The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

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

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:236134")