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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Paralichthyidae

Lefteye flounders and sanddabs

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

Silhouette · Nick Schooler · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Paralichthys californicus

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).

Photograph of Paralichthyidae
Photo · Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0 · inat

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 21,585 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 20 taxa under it.R

21,585
observations
21,585
records
24
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
13
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, 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.

  • Ichthyoplankton 24 obs · 24 events · 1960–2009 · larva
    name used: Paralichthyidae Lefteye flounders and sanddabs · code 919

Under it · 7 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
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