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Syacium

WoRMS 158875ITIS 172790GBIF 2408758key worms:158875
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172790 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nick Schooler · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Paralichthys californicus

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 Syacium
Photo · Robertson Ross · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · inat NC

Syacium is a genus of large-tooth flounders found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. With the exception of S. guineensis from the Atlantic coast of Africa, all species are from the Americas.W CalCOFI holds 140 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2006, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

140
observations
140
records
66
sampling events
1951–2006
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
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 66 obs · 66 events · 1998–2006 · larva
    name used: Syacium · code 914

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
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:158875%22