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Subfamily · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pleuronectinae

WoRMS 154687ITIS 615941key worms:154687
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2026-08-05: itis_id 615941 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa

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 Pleuronectinae
Photo · Jackson W.F. Chu · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Pleuronectinae is a subfamily of fish in the family Pleuronectidae, comprising 14 genera and 33 species. Members of the subfamily are demersal carnivores that live in arctic and northern seas.W CalCOFI holds 7,524 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 19 taxa under it.R

7,524
observations
7,524
records
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
18
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 · 13 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
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154687")