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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Odontesthes

WoRMS 270070ITIS 630609key worms:270070
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2026-08-05: itis_id 630609 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).

Pejerrey escardón o pejerrey baboso (Odontesthes argentinensis) en Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Photo · CHUCAO · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

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

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:270070")