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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Medialuna

WoRMS 269815ITIS 169521key worms:269815
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2026-08-05: itis_id 169521 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · perevolotsky · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Microcanthus strigatus

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 Medialuna
Photo · Andrey M. M. · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Medialuna is a genus of sea chubs native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 385 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2015.R

385
observations
385
records
1951–2015
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:269815")