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Odontesthes

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 270070ITIS 630609key worms:270070
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2026-08-05: itis_id 630609 via WoRMS external link

Odontesthes is a genus of Neotropical silversides. They are found in fresh, brackish and salt water habitats in the southern half of South America, as well as the offshore Juan Fernández and Falkland Islands.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2003 and 2003.R

2
observations
2
records
2003
years
1
datasets
Pejerrey escardón o pejerrey baboso (Odontesthes argentinensis) en Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Photo · CHUCAO · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

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:270070")

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 ↗