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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Samaridae

crested flounders

WoRMS 154170ITIS 553234key worms:154170
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2026-08-05: itis_id 553234 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Cee Nell · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Centropomidae

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 Samaridae
Photo · DavidR.808 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Samaridae is a family of crested flounders, small flatfishes native to the Indo-Pacific. The family contains four genera with a total of 29 species.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002.R

1
observations
1
records
2002
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:154170")