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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pleuronectidae

Righteyed Flounders

WoRMS 125579ITIS 172859GBIF 8611key worms:125579
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172859 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa

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 Pleuronectidae
Photo · Alex Shure · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Pleuronectidae, also known as righteye flounders, are a family of flounders. They are called "righteye flounders" because most species lie on the sea bottom on their left sides, with both eyes on their right sides.W CalCOFI holds 7,545 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 20 taxa under it.R

7,545
observations
7,545
records
21
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
18
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 21 obs · 21 events · 1959–2022 · larva
    name used: Pleuronectidae Righteyed Flounders · code 940

Under it · 1 taxon

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:125579%22