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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Leuresthes

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

Silhouette · lilychughes · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Odontesthes

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 Leuresthes
Photo · arne heijenga · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

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

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:269681")