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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Assurger

WoRMS 268412ITIS 172396key worms:268412
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172396 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pomatomus saltatrix

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 Assurger
Photo · NOAA-PIRO Observer Program, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · Public domain · inat

The razorback scabbardfish, Assurger anzac, is a rare species of cutlassfish, family Trichiuridae, and the only member of its genus.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2002.R

2
observations
2
records
1963–2002
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:268412")