Cololabis
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165608 via WoRMS external link
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 7,434 observations of it in 3 datasets between 1951 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R
- 7,434
- observations
- 7,434
- records
- 1951–2022
- years
- 3
- datasets
- 2
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 2 taxa · Cololabis saira most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis 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:268816")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:268816'").df()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 2 taxa · Cololabis saira most observed
- sp Cololabis saira Pacific saury7,394
- sp Cololabis adoceta Pygmy saury40
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Scomberesocidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cololabis saira · source
- Photo · Miya · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Cololabis” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1179988241
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗