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Pleuronichthys coenosus

C-O turbot

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 282290ITIS 172923GBIF 2409249key worms:282290
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172923 via WoRMS external link

The C-O sole is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on flat bottoms and rocky areas at depths of between 18 and 350 metres.W CalCOFI holds 369 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2022, as larva and egg.R

369
observations
369
records
369
sampling events
1951–2022
years
1
datasets
larva · egg
life stages
36 cm
max length
C-O sole, Pleuronichthys coenosus. Taken at the National Aquarium, Washington, DC.
Photo · Cliff · CC BY 2.0 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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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.

  • 369 obs369 events1951–2022larva · egg
    name used: Pleuronichthys coenosus C-O turbot · code 951

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:282290%22

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 36 cm max
C-O turbot36 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

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 Pleuronichthys
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length · plate
  • Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa · source
  • Photo · Cliff · CC BY 2.0 · commons · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “C-O sole” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1362847083
  • 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

WikidataiNaturalistFishBase

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 ↗