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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Parophrys vetulus

English sole

WoRMS 254393ITIS 172921GBIF 2409370key worms:254393
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172921 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa
English sole57 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photo of Parophrys vetulus (English sole) at the Vancouver Aquarium
Photo · Stan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

The English sole is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on sandy and muddy bottoms in estuaries and near shore areas, at depths of up to 550 metres (1,800 ft).W CalCOFI holds 1,396 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1952 and 2023, as larva and egg.R

1,396
observations
1,396
records
1,390
sampling events
1952–2023
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
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 1,396 obs · 1,390 events · 1952–2023 · larva · egg
    name used: Parophrys vetulus English sole · code 948

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:254393%22