turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)

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Subject:	turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
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Turbot
Bannock Fleuk Tarbut Rhombus aculeatus Pleuronectes maximus Pleuronecte turbot Rhombus maximus
Subject: Pleuronectidae, C-O sole, Turbot
Tag: Fish
Date 1877
Author Jonathan Couch (1789–1870)
Source/Photographer
English: Jonathan Couch (1877) History of the Fishes of the British Isles, London: George Bell & Sons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_46251_Turbot.jpeg

The turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is a species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae. It is a demersal fish native to marine or brackish waters of the North Atlantic, Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. The turbot is a large left-eyed flatfish found primarily close to shore in sandy shallow waters.

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