Marrow (Cucurbita pepo)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Cucurbita pepo L.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Cucurbita pepo
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: L.
Common names: Marrow, field pumpkin, Pumpkin, Acorn squash, American Pumpkin and Summer Squashes, American pumpkin, Bitter bottle gourd, Brazilian Pumpkin, Bush squash, Courgette, Kamokamo, Kumikumi, Ribbed Pumpkin, Scallopini, Summer Squash, cocozelle, jack-o-lantern pumpkin, ornamental gourd, squash, vegetable marrow, zucchini
Names in other languages (98)
Abobrinha, Abobrinha-ornamental, Abóbora, Abóbora-de-coco, Abóbora-estrela, Abóbora-ovo, Abóbora-teta-de-égua, Ahuyamín, Bundeva, Calabaza, Calabaza de Castilla, Citrouille iroquoise, Courge, Courge pépon, Courge pépon, Courge, Citrouille iroquoise, Courgette, Pâtisson, Courge pépon, Giraumon, Citrouille du pays, Patisson, Cucuzziello, Dynia zwyczajna, Feld-Kürbis, Garten-Kürbis, Zucchini, Gartenkürbis, Gartenkürbis (DE), Gemüse-Kürbis, Gewoehnlicher Kuerbis, Gewöhnlicher Kürbis, Giraumon, Jerimum, Kürbis, Mandel-græskar, Maro, Maros, Marrow (EN), Missa'bîgon, Mogango, Murgpampoentjie, Paprastasis agurotis, Patisson, Poronguinho, Potiron, Pwmpen, Sakız Kabağı, Sierpompoen, Termesztett tök, Zapallo angola, Zucca, Zucca e Zucchina, Zucchina, Zucchino, Zuchette, Zuchetti, aboboreira--comum, aboboreira-porqueira, abóbora-cabotiá, calabacín, calam, cayixam, citrouille, courge pepon, cukinia, cus, dynia makaronowa, ghia kaddu, graskar, gresskar, harilik kõrvits, ka, kabaczek, kolokythia, kurpitsa, közönséges tök, patison, pompoen, potini, po’otini, pautini, mautini, prydnadspumpa, pumpa, satokurpitsa, tekvica obyčajná, tykev obecná, xi hu lu, xusi-te, Гарбуз звичайний, Диня, Кабак, Кабаки, Кабачки, Кабачок, Патисон, Патісони, Тиква, Тыква обыкновенная, דלעת הקישוא, קישוא, قرع الكوسة, ฟักทองอเมริกัน, ウリカボチャ, 美國南瓜, 西葫芦, 율호박
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Cucurbitales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Cucurbita
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: pepo
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Cucurbita pepo
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Not available.

No photos have been requested for this species yet.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 1 of 12 has its flowers visited by × 11 more types with data for this species

Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 125 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
Pruinose Squash Bee Peponapis pruinosa Apidae	has its flowers visited by	65	not compared
65 sources · 66 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7028744 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 9, 2017 · Human observation; no place published · July 9, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298159362 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 15, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298766506 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 17, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/298849972 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 9, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201071978 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 23, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301172125 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 26, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301386439 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 26, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301522861 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 27, 2025 · Human observation And 57 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens Apidae	has its flowers visited by	18	not compared
18 sources · 25 records https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/metadata/ Published in globalbioticinteractions/gbif-us-bees Record contexts (sample): no place published · July 5, 2024 · Human observation; no place published · Aug. 25, 2020 · Human observation Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/378121 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 24, 2013 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/302585752 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 31, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305651474 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 11, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/306231493 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 14, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/310231199 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 30, 2025 · Human observation And 10 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	17	not compared
17 sources · 22 records Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Ollerton, J., Trunschke, J. ., Havens, K. ., Landaverde-González, P. ., Keller, A. ., Gilpin, A.-M. ., Rodrigo Rech, A. ., Baronio, G. J. ., Phillips, B. J., Mackin, C. ., Stanley, D. A., Treanore, E. ., Baker, E. ., Rotheray, E. L., Erickson, E. ., Fornoff, F. ., Brearley, F. Q… Published in globalbioticinteractions/ollerton2022 Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published Robertson, C. 1929. Flowers and insects: lists of visitors to four hundred and fifty-three flowers. Carlinville, IL, USA, C. Robertson. Published in millerse/Flowers-and-insects-lists-of-visitors-to-four-hundred-and-fifty-three-flowers Context: southwestern Illinois, USA · no date published https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301172077 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 26, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301522913 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 27, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/4218564 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 4, 2016 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8046843 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 22, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/125200666 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 7, 2022 · Human observation And 9 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Two-spotted Long-horned Bee Melissodes bimaculatus Apidae	has its flowers visited by	7	not compared
7 sources · 7 records https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/297571410 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 12, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301335450 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 26, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305510490 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 11, 2025 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/30266227 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 30, 2019 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/53195467 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 15, 2020 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175561184 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 29, 2023 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/176177388 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 1, 2023 · Human observation A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.