Pleuronectinae
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2026-08-05: itis_id 615941 via WoRMS external link
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 7,557 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, across 19 taxa under it.R
- 7,557
- observations
- 7,557
- records
- 1951–2023
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 18
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 13 taxa · Pleuronichthys most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:154687")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:154687'").df()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 13 taxa · Pleuronichthys most observed
- G Pleuronichthys Turbots2,424
- G Lyopsetta1,983
- G Parophrys1,399
- G Microstomus1,111
- G Glyptocephalus378
- G Psettichthys131
- G Lepidopsetta67
- G Isopsetta21
- G Platichthys20
- G Eopsetta18
- G Atheresthes2
- G Hippoglossoides2
- G Hippoglossus1
Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Pleuronectidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa · source
- Photo · Jackson W.F. Chu · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Pleuronectinae” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1245590348
Elsewhere Wikidata
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 ↗