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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Citharichthys stigmaeus

Speckled sanddab

WoRMS 275696ITIS 172717GBIF 2408737key worms:275696
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172717 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Tessa Rehill · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Citharichthys stigmaeus
Speckled sanddab17 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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Speckled Sanddabs (Citharichthys stigmaeus) at the Steinhart Aquarium of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
Photo · BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Citharichthys stigmaeus, the speckled sanddab, is a species of lefteye Blothid flounder in the genus Citharichthys. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Alaska in the north to Baja California, Mexico in the south.W CalCOFI holds 5,947 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1954 and 2023, as larva and egg.R

5,947
observations
5,947
records
5,940
sampling events
1954–2023
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 5,947 obs · 5,940 events · 1954–2023 · larva · egg
    name used: Citharichthys stigmaeus Speckled sanddab · code 925

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:275696%22