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Brama japonica

Pacific pomfret

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 273148ITIS 170289GBIF 5208088key worms:273148
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2026-08-05: itis_id 170289 via WoRMS external link

Brama japonica, the Pacific pomfret, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a pomfret of the family Bramidae. B. japonica is closely related, and quite similar, to Brama brama, but can be distinguished by possessing a greater number of anal fin rays and a higher number of gill rakers.W CalCOFI holds 155 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva.R

155
observations
155
records
155
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages
61 cm
max length
This image is of a Pacific pomfret (Brama japonica). The image was taken at the Philippines Fish Market in Los Angeles, CA by Andrew Grygus.
Photo · Image taken by Andrew Grygus at the Philippines Fish Market, Los Angeles, CA on 7-15-2019. A. Grygus uploaded to fishbase and made the image to be freely shared and altered, with the assumption that he was acknowledged. · Public domain · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 155 obs155 events1951–2022larva
    name used: Brama japonica Pacific pomfret · code 552

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:273148%22

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 61 cm max
Pacific pomfret61 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Brama
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Ando · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Abramis brama · source
  • Photo · Image taken by Andrew Grygus at the Philippines Fish Market, Los Angeles, CA on 7-15-2019. A. Grygus uploaded to fishbase and made the image to be freely shared and altered, with the assumption that he was acknowledged. · Public domain · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Brama japonica” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355372620
  • Length · worms_attribute
  • Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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 ↗