Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bothidae

Lefteye Flounders

WoRMS 125576ITIS 172714GBIF 8608key worms:125576

2026-08-05: itis_id 172714 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Cee Nell · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Centropomidae

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 Bothidae — Photo · 107825510903946183767 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Bothidae or lefteye flounders are a family of flounders. They are called "lefteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their right sides, with both eyes on their left sides.W CalCOFI holds 198 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2012, as larva, across 10 taxa under it.R

198
observations: 198
records: 11
sampling events: 1951–2012
years: 1
datasets: 5
species under it: larva
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 11 obs · 11 events · 1952–2002 · larva
name used: Bothidae Lefteye Flounders · code 916

Under it · 6 taxa

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/.

Explorer db-query

ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon

https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125576%22

Bothidae

Under it · 6 taxa

Ways iniRead from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

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/.