Microstomus pacificus
Dover sole
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172887 via WoRMS external link
The Pacific Dover sole, also called the slime sole or slippery sole, is a Pacific flatfish of the flounder family which ranges from Baja California to the Bering Sea. It takes its name from a resemblance to the common sole of Europe, which is often called Dover sole.W CalCOFI holds 1,108 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva and egg.R
- 1,108
- observations
- 1,108
- records
- 1,087
- sampling events
- 1951–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- larva · egg
- life stages
- 76 cm
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Microstomus pacificus Dover sole · code
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Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:274294")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:274294'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.20, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 76 cm max
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.
Life stages larva · egg
- Ichthyoplankton larva · egg
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Microstomus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
- Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Microstoma microstoma · source
- Photo · Linda Snook / MBNMS · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Microstomus pacificus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1314651462
- Length · worms_attribute
- Plate · Matarese, Kendall, Blood & Vinter 1989, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, via the AFSC Ichthyoplankton Information System · Public domain (US Government work) · noaa_iis · source
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · FishBase
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.20
Cite the release, v2026.10.20; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗