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Bothus

WoRMS 126110ITIS 172758GBIF 2408619key worms:126110
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172758 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 Bothus
Photo · LASZLO ILYES · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Bothus is a genus of flatfish in the family Bothidae from the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Some species in this genus have spots consisting of blue rings.W CalCOFI holds 150 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

150
observations
150
records
93
sampling events
1951–2006
years
1
datasets
2
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 93 obs · 93 events · 1951–2006 · larva
    name used: Bothus · code 917

Under it · 2 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/.

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:126110%22