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Paralichthyidae

Lefteye flounders and sanddabs

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 154168ITIS 553179GBIF 5082key worms:154168
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553179 via WoRMS external link

Large-tooth flounders or sand flounders are a family, Paralichthyidae, of flounders. The family contains 14 genera with a total of about 110 species.W CalCOFI holds 21,738 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 20 taxa under it.R

21,738
observations
21,738
records
24
sampling events
1951–2023
years
2
datasets
13
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Paralichthyidae
Photo · Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 24 obs24 events1960–2009larva
    name used: Paralichthyidae Lefteye flounders and sanddabs · code 919

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:154168%22

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 7 taxa · Citharichthys most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Pleuronectiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗