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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Pleuronichthys verticalis

Hornyhead turbot

WoRMS 282295ITIS 172926GBIF 2409248key worms:282295
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2026-08-05: itis_id 172926 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Birgit Lang · CC BY 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Pleuronectes platessa
Hornyhead turbot37 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

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Hornyhead Turbot (Pleuronichthys verticalis). Species of fish.
Photo · Charlotte Seid · CC BY 4.0 · commons

The hornyhead turbot is a species of flatfish in the family Pleuronectidae. It is a demersal fish that lives on soft sand and mud bottoms at depths of between 9 and 200 metres.W CalCOFI holds 1,306 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva and egg.R

1,306
observations
1,306
records
1,296
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 1,306 obs · 1,296 events · 1951–2023 · larva · egg
    name used: Pleuronichthys verticalis Hornyhead turbot · code 955

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:282295%22