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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-09-27

Paranthias

WoRMS 270239ITIS 167837key worms:270239
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2026-09-27: itis_id 167837 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca

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 Paranthias
Photo · keesgroenendijk · CC BY 4.0 · gbif

Paranthias is a monotypic genus of marine ray-finned fish which are commonly referred to as creolefish. They are groupers from the family Epinephelidae which are found in the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2022 and 2022.R

2
observations
2
records
1
sampling events
2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 2022 Vertebrate eDNA 2 obs · 1 events · 2022
    name used: Paranthias · code urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:270239

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.05, 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:270239")