Hippoglossus
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172931 via WoRMS external link
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 keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126116")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126116'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 1 taxon
- sp Hippoglossus stenolepis Pacific halibut1
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Pleuronectinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa · source
- Photo · Neptune Canada · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Hippoglossus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366829152
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.19
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