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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Microstomus

WoRMS 126118ITIS 172886key worms:126118
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172886 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Microstoma microstoma

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).

Lemon sole from the Fairy Bank in the Southern North Sea.
Photo · Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Microstomus is a genus of righteye flounders native to the northern Pacific and north-eastern Atlantic oceans.W CalCOFI holds 1,109 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, across 2 taxa under it.R

1,109
observations
1,109
records
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

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

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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:126118")