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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pleuronichthys ritteri

Spotted turbot

WoRMS 282294ITIS 172925GBIF 2409241key worms:282294
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172925 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa
Spotted turbot30 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Spotted turbot (Pleuronichthys ritteri) Image ID: expl2926, Voyage To Inner Space - Exploring the Seas With NOAA Collect Location: California, Channel Islands, Santa Cruz Is. area Photo Date: 2011 Apr
Photo · NOAA Photo Library · Public domain · commons

The spotted turbot is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on bottoms at depths of between 1 and 50 metres.W CalCOFI holds 272 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva and egg.R

272
observations
272
records
268
sampling events
1951–2023
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 272 obs · 268 events · 1951–2023 · larva · egg
    name used: Pleuronichthys ritteri Spotted turbot · code 953

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:282294%22