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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hippoglossus

WoRMS 126116ITIS 172931key worms:126116
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172931 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 Hippoglossus
Photo · Neptune Canada · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Hippoglossus is a genus of very large righteye flounders. It comprises two species of halibut, with one species native to the northern Atlantic Ocean and the other species native to the northern Pacific Ocean.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1985 and 1985.R

1
observations
1
records
1985
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:126116")