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Leuresthes

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 269681ITIS 166013key worms:269681
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166013 via WoRMS external link

Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardina. They are sardine-sized teleost fishes of the New World silverside family Atherinopsidae, found only off the coast of California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico.W CalCOFI holds 240 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1963 and 2022.R

240
observations
240
records
1963–2022
years
1
datasets
Photograph of Leuresthes
Photo · arne heijenga · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:269681")

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 1 taxon
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Atherinopsinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

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 ↗