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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bothus pantherinus

Leopard flounder

WoRMS 219795ITIS 172764key worms:219795
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172764 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Cee Nell · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Centropomidae
Leopard flounder39 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Bothus pantherinus in Polynesia
Photo · Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

The leopard flounder or panther flounder, is a flatfish found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as larva.R

3
observations
3
records
3
sampling events
2002
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 3 obs · 3 events · 2002 · larva
    name used: Bothus pantherinus Leopard flounder · code 2270

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:219795%22