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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Achiridae

American soles

WoRMS 154171ITIS 202070key worms:154171
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2026-08-05: itis_id 202070 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tree of Life App · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Achirus

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 Achiridae
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The American soles are a family (Achiridae) of flatfish occurring in both freshwater and marine environments of the Americas. The family includes about 35 species in seven genera.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1965 and 2003, across 2 taxa under it.R

2
observations
2
records
1965–2003
years
1
datasets
1
species under it

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:154171")