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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Platichthys

WoRMS 126119ITIS 172892key worms:126119
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172892 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Scophthalmus aquosus

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).

Flounder from Oost Dyck bank in the Southern North Sea.
Photo · Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

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 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2017.R

19
observations
19
records
1966–2017
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:126119")