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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Scombrinae

WoRMS 267118ITIS 638248key worms:267118
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2026-08-05: itis_id 638248 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Scomber australasicus

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 Scombrinae
Photo · Navaneeth Sini George · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Scombrinae are a subfamily of ray-finned bony fishes in the family Scombridae. Of the 51 species in the Scombridae, 50 are in Scombrinae – with the sole exception being the butterfly kingfish, which is placed in the monospecific subfamily Gasterochismatinae.W CalCOFI holds 4,197 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, across 12 taxa under it.R

4,197
observations
4,197
records
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
8
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 8 taxa

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:267118")