Platichthys
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172892 via WoRMS external link
Platichthys is a genus of flatfish native to the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans. Despite being in the family Pleuronectidae, all four species in the genus Platichthys are often "lefteyed", i.e. they lie on the sea bottom on their right side, with both eyes on the left side.W CalCOFI holds 20 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2017.R
- 20
- observations
- 20
- records
- 1966–2017
- 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:126119")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:126119'").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 Platichthys stellatus Starry flounder20
Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Pleuronectinae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scophthalmus aquosus · source
- Photo · Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Platichthys” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362847408
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
Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗