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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cololabis saira

Pacific saury

WoRMS 280366ITIS 165609GBIF 2369261key worms:280366
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2026-08-05: itis_id 165609 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Mathieu Pélissié · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Cololabis saira
Pacific saury40 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Cololabis saira
Photo · beemartins from Matsushima · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The Pacific saury is species of fish in the family Scomberesocidae. Saury is a seafood in several East Asian cuisines and is also known by the name mackerel pike.W CalCOFI holds 7,383 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, as larva and egg.R

7,383
observations
7,383
records
7,077
sampling events
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
larva · egg
life stages

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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 7,377 obs · 7,071 events · 1951–2020 · larva · egg
    name used: Cololabis saira Pacific saury · code 166
  • Mesopelagic Fish 6 obs · 6 events · 2010–2011
    name used: Cololabis saira · code Cololabis saira

How big is it
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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.

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:280366%22