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turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
Subject: turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)
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turbot (Scophthalmus maximus)


Fig. 9. -- Pleuronectes Maximus Linnaeus. The Turbot. (Left Side)

Subject: Pleuronectes, Turbot
Tag: Fish
Date 1886
Author David Starr Jordan (1851–1931)
Source/Photographer
English: David Starr Jordan (1889) Review of the Flounders and Soles (Pleuronectidae) of America and Europe, Report of the Commissioner (United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries), 1886, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_33704_Pleuronectes_Maximus_Linnaeus.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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