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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Glyptocephalus

WoRMS 126114ITIS 172872key worms:126114
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172872 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tessa Rehill · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Glyptocephalus zachirus

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).

The witch or Torbay sole (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), Stavern, Norway
Photo · Arnstein Rønning · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Glyptocephalus is a genus of righteye flounders found in the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans…W CalCOFI holds 377 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2017.R

377
observations
377
records
1951–2017
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126114")