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Cololabis

WoRMS 268816ITIS 165608key worms:268816
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165608 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cololabis saira

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).

Pacific saury (Cololabis saira)
Photo · Miya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Cololabis is a genus of sauries found in the eastern and northern Pacific Ocean. The name is derived from the Greek word kolos, meaning 'short', and the Latin word labis, meaning 'forceps', referring to the short beak of the type species Scombresox brevirostris.W CalCOFI holds 7,423 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, across 2 taxa under it.R

7,423
observations
7,423
records
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
2
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 · 2 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:268816")