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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Lepidopsetta bilineata

Rock sole

WoRMS 281305ITIS 172917GBIF 5213939key worms:281305
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172917 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa
Rock sole60 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Photograph of Lepidopsetta bilineata
Photo · Robert Webster · CC BY-SA 4.0 · inat

The rock sole, also known as the Pacific rock sole or Southern rock sole, is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on sand and gravel bottoms at depths of up to 575 metres (1,886 ft), though it is most commonly found between 0 and 183 metres.W CalCOFI holds 65 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1961 and 2022, as larva.R

65
observations
65
records
65
sampling events
1961–2022
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 65 obs · 65 events · 1961–2022 · larva
    name used: Lepidopsetta bilineata Rock sole · code 944

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 v2026.10.01, 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:281305%22