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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Platichthys stellatus

Starry flounder

WoRMS 154781ITIS 172893GBIF 2409327key worms:154781
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172893 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Platichthys flesus
Starry flounder91 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Starry Flounder
Photo · Myself · Public domain · commons

The starry flounder, also known as the grindstone, emery wheel and long-nosed flounder, is a common flatfish found around the margins of the North Pacific.W CalCOFI holds 19 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2017, as larva.R

19
observations
19
records
19
sampling events
1966–2017
years
1
datasets
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 19 obs · 19 events · 1966–2017 · larva
    name used: Platichthys stellatus Starry flounder · code 949

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:154781%22